caterhamcomputing

I’m glad you find the plugin useful.

You do not need to use any of the skins, just supply a custom class and only the CSS for creating the responsive columns will be applied:

[child_pages class="myclass"]

… you can then style the output in any way that you like.

The plugin really is developed for use with Pages only … as Posts do not have a hierarchical view, and therefore the Parent/Child relationship does not apply.

I did consider creating a generic plugin to output any kind of post type in a matching fashion … but have not yet needed it for any project that I have worked on.

I may resurrect the idea at some future point.

Anyway, I’m glad that you are finding the existing plugin useful.

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At present, the plugin only uses the excerpt for the page description … it adds the excerpt box to Pages (normally it is only available on Posts) to allow a custom excerpt to be created, so the easiest option would be to fill this field with the same contents as you are specifying for the meta description. (You may need to select to show the excerpt box from the Screen Options tab at the top of the dashboard.)

What plugin are you using to populate the meta description?

Since there is no standard field for the meta description in WordPress, I guess this could probably be achieved if I created an option to name a custom field to use as the description – as most plugins would use a custom field to store the information. If the field didn’t exist (or was empty), the fallback would then be to use the excerpt or page content as normal.

I’ll consider this option for future releases.

The plugin wraps the details for each child page in various classes – including one that includes the ID of the page, for example if the ID of the page was 17 you could CSS such as:

.ccpage-id-17 h3 {
    font-size: 24pt;
    color: #ff66ff;
}

(You may need to add !important to the CSS for this class to stop other definitions from over-riding them.)

To change the colour of the “Read more” text, you would need to apply the CSS to the link itself:

.ccpages_more a {
    color: #ffffff;
    background-color: #289400;
    ....
}

Again, you may or may not need to add !important …

Thank you for using this plugin.

Full instructions on how to use it are available at https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/cc-child-pages/ and http://ccchildpages.ccplugins.co.uk/ (with examples)

I am marking this topic as resolved – however, if you do find any compatibility problems with WordPress 4.3 please do let me know.

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Hi.

I know that when I looked at this page previously, it was using the plugin (as I was checking the source code) – I was unable to find any problem with how the page was displaying, despite trying a variety of browsers.

Looking now, I can see that you are no longer using my plugin … sorry that it didn’t work out for you on this occasion.

If you could let me know which browser you were experiencing the problem with (along with the version – for example: Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox 40, etc.) it would help me to be able to determine what the problem was that you were experiencing.

Hi

Can you post a link to the page using the Child Pages shortcode so that I can see what is going on…

The shortcode should pick up any dynamic content that is produced by other shortcodes, but will remove any formatting and truncate the output.

The best option (unless you especially need the dynamic content displayed) would probably be to write a custom description in the Excerpt box which is added to Pages by the plugin (the same Excerpt box that WordPress uses for posts). This would probably be the most reliable approach, as dynamic content may well be quite long …

The plugin also plays nicely with the Video Thumbnails plugin, which might also help.

Hi again

Sorry not to have got back to you sooner, but I have been away for a while.

I have looked at the page in Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and the default browser on my Android phone … and as far as I can see, the images are centred within the column as expected.

The only thing I have noticed is that your theme has a fixed width, so at when the browser windows is not as wide as the web page you have to scroll left and right to see the content.

What browser are you using to view the page, and which version? (E.G. Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 10, etc.)

The hide_excerpt parameter allows you to hide the excerpt completely.

[child_pages hide_excerpt="true"]