Excerpts for Pages

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I inserted an excerpt into a Page using the “More” button in WP GUI.

I have a custom loop-page.php from which I want to display the excerpt. But it appears to be empty?

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Is it possible to display excerpts from child pages? 

$pageChildren = get_pages('sort_column=menu_order&hierarchical=0&child_of='.$post->ID);
if ( $pageChildren ) {
  foreach ( $pageChildren as $pageChild ) {
    echo '<p>And the title is: '. $pageChild->post_title.'</p>';
        print_r($pageChild);
        if (!empty($pageChild->post_excerpt)){
            echo '<p><a href="' . get_permalink($pageChild->ID) . '">' . $pageChild->post_excerpt.'</a> </p> ';
        }
        echo '<hr />';
  }
}

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  1. Using the “more” tag does not create an excerpt. It simply creates a “Read More” link when displaying the_content() on index pages.

    Excerpts are created/displayed as follows:

    To display an excerpt, your template file needs to call “the_excerpt()” rather than “the_content()”. Note: you use the equivalent $post->post_excerpt, which should also work just fine.

    The “the_excerpt()” template tag then displays the excerpt, which is created as follows:

    1) By entering excerpt content into the “Excerpt” field on the Edit Post/Edit Page screen.
    2) Automatically, based on number of characters, if no content is added to the “Excerpt” field.

    EDIT:

    Okay so I totally missed this at first. Only Posts have the “excerpt” field. Pages don’t have the “excerpt” field. So, $post->post_excerpt will never be populated for Pages (I think).

    Try running “setup_postdata( $pageChild )” inside your foreach loop, and then replacing “$pageChild->post_excerpt” with “get_the_excerpt()”:

    foreach ( $pageChildren as $pageChild ) {
    setup_postdata( $pageChild );
    echo '<p>And the title is: '. $pageChild->post_title.'</p>';
        print_r($pageChild);
            echo '<p><a href="' . get_permalink($pageChild->ID) . '">' . get_the_excerpt() .'</a> </p> ';
        echo '<hr />';
}

    Does that work?