Last night a plugin saved my life

And it was this one

Last night a plugin saved my life.

And it was this one

<!––showchild––>

In my first pass at documentation, I didn’t notice that WordPress had thoughtfully replaced my double-dashes with a single long-dash.

Uh…thanks, WordPress?

First, one very important correction: ShowChildPages does not generate a list of all the child pages, it appends all of the contents of those child pages to the tagged page.

This can make for a very large page…};^)

The idea is that you can import that single page-of-pages easily into Word or Open Office, whatever you like.

So, I would not suggest putting this in your sidebar.

Having said that, I’m pretty sure this would work almost anywhere, in the sidebar, in a template, etc.

Putting it in a page template would be…odd. If you used the plain vanilla tag, the template page would display the contents of any pages subsequently parented to it. If you used the Pages tag, that template would always show the same hierarchy of child pages.

But hey, I just write ‘em. It’s up to you to figure out how you want to use ‘em…};^)

By the way, if you are looking for a plugin that just lists the names of all the child pages, follow the links for Rob Miller and Kaf Oseo at the top of the page.

To be more specific, can I use the [!–showchild–] tag outside of the loop in my Page template, say to show a list of child pages in my sidebar or pretty much anywhere outside of the main content.

Thanks for your time, any help would be greatly appreciated. And again, this is a great plugin, keep up the good work!