US States Dropdown Menu

Here is a select list of US States to use in your Contact Form 7 plugin.
[select your-state include_blank "AL" "AK" "AZ" "AR" "CA" "CO" "CT" "DE" "FL" "GA" "HI" "ID" "IL" "IN" "IA" "KS" "KY" "LA" "ME" "MD" "MA" "MI" "MN" "MS" "MO" "MT" "NE" "NV" "NH" "NJ" "NM" "NY" "NC" "ND" "OH" "OK" "OR" "PA" "RI" "SC" "SD" "TN" "TX" "UT" "VT" "VA" "WA" "WV" "WI" "WY"]

Country Dropdown Menu

Here is a select list of Countries to use in your Contact Form 7 plugin.
[select your-country include_blank "Afghanistan" "Albania" "Algeria" "American Samoa" "Andorra" "Angola" "Anguilla" "Antarctica" "Antigua and Barbuda" "Argentina" "Armenia" "Arctic Ocean" "Aruba" "Ashmore and Cartier Islands" "Atlantic Ocean" "Australia" "Austria" "Azerbaijan" "Bahamas" "Bahrain" "Baker Island" "Bangladesh" "Barbados" "Bassas da India" "Belarus" "Belgium" "Belize" "Benin" "Bermuda" "Bhutan" "Bolivia" "Bosnia and Herzegovina" "Botswana" "Bouvet Island" "Brazil" "British Virgin Islands" "Brunei" "Bulgaria" "Burkina Faso" "Burundi" "Cambodia" "Cameroon" "Canada" "Cape Verde" "Cayman Islands" "Central African Republic" "Chad" "Chile" "China" "Christmas Island" "Clipperton Island" "Cocos Islands" "Colombia" "Comoros" "Cook Islands" "Coral Sea Islands" "Costa Rica" "Cote d'Ivoire" "Croatia" "Cuba" "Cyprus" "Czech Republic" "Denmark" "Democratic Republic of the Congo" "Djibouti" "Dominica" "Dominican Republic" "East Timor" "Ecuador" "Egypt" "El Salvador" "Equatorial Guinea" "Eritrea" "Estonia" "Ethiopia" "Europa Island" "Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)" "Faroe Islands" "Fiji" "Finland" "France" "French Guiana" "French Polynesia" "French Southern and Antarctic Lands" "Gabon" "Gambia" "Gaza Strip" "Georgia" "Germany" "Ghana" "Gibraltar" "Glorioso Islands" "Greece" "Greenland" "Grenada" "Guadeloupe" "Guam" "Guatemala" "Guernsey" "Guinea" "Guinea-Bissau" "Guyana" "Haiti" "Heard Island and McDonald Islands" "Honduras" "Hong Kong" "Howland Island" "Hungary" "Iceland" "India" "Indian Ocean" "Indonesia" "Iran" "Iraq" "Ireland" "Isle of Man" "Israel" "Italy" "Jamaica" "Jan Mayen" "Japan" "Jarvis Island" "Jersey" "Johnston Atoll" "Jordan" "Juan de Nova Island" "Kazakhstan" "Kenya" "Kingman Reef" "Kiribati" "Kerguelen Archipelago" "Kosovo" "Kuwait" "Kyrgyzstan" "Laos" "Latvia" "Lebanon" "Lesotho" "Liberia" "Libya" "Liechtenstein" "Lithuania" "Luxembourg" "Macau" "Macedonia" "Madagascar" "Malawi" "Malaysia" "Maldives" "Mali" "Malta" "Marshall Islands" "Martinique" "Mauritania" "Mauritius" "Mayotte" "Mexico" "Micronesia" "Midway Islands" "Moldova" "Monaco" "Mongolia" "Montenegro" "Montserrat" "Morocco" "Mozambique" "Myanmar" "Namibia" "Nauru" "Navassa Island" "Nepal" "Netherlands" "Netherlands Antilles" "New Caledonia" "New Zealand" "Nicaragua" "Niger" "Nigeria" "Niue" "Norfolk Island" "North Korea" "North Sea" "Northern Mariana Islands" "Norway" "Oman" "Pacific Ocean" "Pakistan" "Palau" "Palmyra Atoll" "Panama" "Papua New Guinea" "Paracel Islands" "Paraguay" "Peru" "Philippines" "Pitcairn Islands" "Poland" "Portugal" "Puerto Rico" "Qatar" "Reunion" "Republic of the Congo" "Romania" "Russia" "Rwanda" "Saint Helena" "Saint Kitts and Nevis" "Saint Lucia" "Saint Pierre and Miquelon" "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines" "Samoa" "San Marino" "Sao Tome and Principe" "Saudi Arabia" "Senegal" "Serbia" "Seychelles" "Sierra Leone" "Singapore" "Slovakia" "Slovenia" "Solomon Islands" "Somalia" "South Africa" "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands" "South Korea" "Spain" "Spratly Islands" "Sri Lanka" "Sudan" "Suriname" "Svalbard" "Swaziland" "Sweden" "Switzerland" "Syria" "Taiwan" "Tajikistan" "Tanzania" "Thailand" "Togo" "Tokelau" "Tonga" "Trinidad and Tobago" "Tromelin Island" "Tunisia" "Turkey" "Turkmenistan" "Turks and Caicos Islands" "Tuvalu" "Uganda" "Ukraine" "United Arab Emirates" "United Kingdom" "USA" "Uruguay" "Uzbekistan" "Vanuatu" "Venezuela" "Viet Nam" "Virgin Islands" "Wake Island" "Wallis and Futuna" "West Bank" "Western Sahara" "Yemen" "Yugoslavia" "Zambia" "Zimbabwe"]

Listing Child pages with Excerpt

For those of you who use Wordpress as a CMS, I found myself searching for a way to list several related pages with an excerpt.  I read through this article by The Wordpress Guru, and found that it basically described what I wanted to do, however it used calls to the database that I didn’t feel was the best way to do it.  Wordpress should have something built in to do this, right?  Right.

My searches through the Wordpress Codex left me a little overwhelmed.  I could list all pages using get_children(), but if I tried to retrieve the title or excerpt it would only retrieve the parent posts data.  So after a little more searching and testing I found the best way, that I know of, to do this:
<?php
// Set up the arguments for retrieving the pages
$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'page',
    'numberposts' => -1,
    'post_status' => null,
// $post->ID gets the ID of the current page
'post_parent' => $post->ID,
    'order' => ASC,
    'orderby' => title
    );
 $subpages = get_posts($args);
 // Just another Wordpress Loop
 foreach($subpages as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
<h4><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"
id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a>
</h4>
 <?php the_excerpt(); ?>

 <?php endforeach; ?>
To utilize this feature this code will be placed in your template.  For me I put this in page.php just above the call to get_footer();

The reason I did this is so that if I create additional pages that will contain children this list will come after the content on those parent pages.  However, you can put this above ‘The Loop’ as well if you want this list to appear above your content.

If you have any questions about how this works or how to utilize this script, please post a comment.  Again this is my first how-to, so if I left out something major politely let me know and I will fix it.