How to echo excerpts with wp_list_pages?

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I’ve tried to echo excerpts in wp_list_pages with the code below. It works, but only for one of the child pages. How would I echo the excerpt and title for each child page? 

<?php
$children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1&child_of='.$post->ID.'&echo=0');
if ($children) { ?>
    <h2>
        <?php echo $children; ?>
        <?php the_excerpt(); ?> 
    </h2>
<?php } ?>
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  1. If you want to make use of all the nifty filters for the title and excerpt/content (and why would you not want that?) you should loop through a custom query instead of using get_pages and the pages’ plain contents:

    <?php
$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'page',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'posts_per_page' => -1,
    'post_parent' => $post->ID,
);
$query = new WP_Query($args);
while ($query->have_posts()) {
    $query->the_post();
    ?>
    <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
    <?php
    the_excerpt();
}
wp_reset_postdata();
?>

  2. wp_list_pages() is for displaying a list of pages. It looks like you want to do more with it.

    Instead you should use get_pages() with returns an array of data about the pages which means you have much more flexibility with it. Here’s some sample code:

    $children = get_pages(array('child_of' => $post->ID));

foreach ($children as $child) { ?>
   <h2><?php echo $child->post_title; ?></h2>
   <p><?php echo $child->post_excerpt; ?></p>
   <li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($child->ID); ?>"><?php echo $child->post_title; ?></a></li>
<?php } ?>

  3. You can’t do this the way you are attempting. All of the markup is generated by wp_list_pages(). You can’t “insert” content like that.

    You can apply a callback to the wp_list_pages hook but you’d need some tricky regex to do it.

    I think your best option is to pass a custom Walker to wp_list_pages(). Something like this:

    class My_Page_Walker extends Walker_Page {
  function end_el( &$output, $page, $depth = 0, $args = array() ) {
    $output .= apply_filters('the_excerpt',$page->post_excerpt);  
    // or generate the excerpt from post_content
    // $output .= apply_filters('the_content',wp_trim_words($page->post_content));
    $output .= '</li>';
  }
}

$args = array(
  'post_status'=> 'publish',
  'walker' => new My_Page_Walker
);

wp_list_pages( $args );

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