Word limit on child page displays

Hi.

If you are using [child_pages words="10"], you should certainly only be seeing 10 words …

Can you copy and paste the shortcode and all the parameters you are using exactly as it appears in your editor?

Also, if you have used any of the hooks/actions, please let me know.

(N.B. I notice that you seem to have taken the site down, so it is hard to tell exactly what is going on ….)

Sorry I was having a few problems with the host. All is back up and running now. Still unable to get the shortcodes to work. Have a look at the site now that it is back up again

[child_pages cols=”2″ more=”Read More” thumbs=”true” words=”25″ skin=”simple” list=”false”]
is what I am trying to use. But any shortcode I use doesn’t change the parameters at all. Even copy and pasted the code you have above did nothing.
Also there are no hooks/actions

Sorry not to have replied sooner … I’ve not been in the office very much recently.

I did look a few times, but was just getting the holding page from your host and so couldn’t look at the output for the page.

My suspicion was that some other plugin may have been adding content (adverts, etc.) to the page output used to generate the excerpt … in which case, specifying custom excerpts for each page may have been an option.

Today I am pleased to see that the page is appearing as expected … can you let me know what changes you made, in case there is anything I need to correct in my code.

All the best … Tim

I am marking this as resolved as I have not heard back from you … Please do let me know if you are still having problems.