caterhamcomputing

Hi. Just to say that the next release of the plugin will add the class active to output for the current page, which should allow you to format the current page easily.

I am working on the next release of the plugin, which will allow more ways of sorting the output … including randomising the order.

Adding the following to the Custom CSS box (Settings -> CC Child Pages) or to the CSS for your theme should achieve what you are looking for:

.cc-child-pages-thumb {
    max-width: 49%;
    padding-left: 1%;
    padding-right: 0;
    float: right;
}

… you may want to look at using CSS media queries to only do this when displayed on larger screens to avoid situations on mobile devices where the text is squeezed into a narrow strip alongside the image.

The latest version of the plugin also add the limit parameter, which may help to limit the number of related items displayed and hopefully keep memory usage down.

You could try something like:

[child_pages siblings="true" limit="5"]

Turns out it is possible, but not as straightforward as may be expected as adding an offset to WP_Query does odd things to pagination.

I have just uploaded a new version of the plugin adding offset and limit parameters which should hopefully let you do what you describe in your post.

I am marking this as resolved as I have not heard back from you … Please do let me know if you are still having problems.

I have added the posts_per_page and page parameters that might help in some circumstances.

Since the excerpt is truncated, HTML formatting is not kept (as it could lead to HTML tags not being closed properly).

You can specify truncate_excerpt="false" to display Custon Excerpts without truncating them … in which case you could use something like the “Rich Text Excerpts” plugin to enter HTML formatted excerpts (this only applies to custom excerpts entered in the Excerpt box will be used – the plugin adds the Excerpt box to Pages).