August 10th, 2006

blogHelper’s First WordPress Plugin: Recent Child Pages

It isn’t anything spectacular or revolutionary, but it might come in useful when using WordPress as a more conventional content management system (CMS) - as I had to do recently. What it does is to list the recent child pages (also known as subpages) of a particular parent page or the one the template tag has been placed on.

Basically, it’s just like a Recent Posts or Recent Comments plugin - but for child pages instead. With this and a few other plugins like List Subpages and In-Series, you can effectively use WordPress’ page system to handle article-type websites easily, and yet maintain WP’s reverse chronological post system for the site’s blog.

I’ll be putting up a guide + case study on how you can use this plugin for such a purpose later, and perhaps even continue on with some other plugins as well.

For now, check out the Recent Child Pages plugin.

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Posted by ZMAng

Filed under Plugins, WordPress

3 Comments

  • 1
    Adam
    August 14th, 2006 at 6:42 am

    Hi! This plugin looks fantastic, and I desperately need it… however I can’t seem to download it off your site! It says it’s corrupted! Can you please see if it needs to be fixed so I can grab it from you? Thanks a lot.

  • 2
    ZMAng
    August 14th, 2006 at 6:59 am

    Oops. My mistake. Thanks for informing me.

    I’ve reuploaded it.

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  • 3
    Uncorking the Juices | blogHelper
    August 14th, 2006 at 8:22 pm

    […] But I don’t think you can blame me either. For the past 4 or 5 days, I’ve only been writing about WordPress, and not just any piece of WordPress, but the technical side of it. If you’ve been in blogHelper’s archives before, you’d notice that writing plugins and permalink structures aren’t things I normally talk about. So, even though I know what I’m writing about, I’m still pretty much out of my swimming pool (sorry, too blur to think what the proper phrase is), and it’s taking its toll. […]

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