How to Achieve Something Like This In WordPress - php

Question

Hey there, I'm trying to create a page showing specific pages (hope that makes sense), probably by calling their post ID's or something.
I want to pull in the page thumbnail/featured image, the page title, the page's description, and then a link to that page.
Something along the lines of this.
<ul>
<li>
<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<h2>Page Title</h2>
<p>Page Description</p>
Link to page
</li>
</ul>
Any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance.
UPDATE: At the moment I've got something like this. Using a custom field to bring in the description. I'm still trying to work out how I'd only show pages that are under a parent page called "Culture".
<?php query_posts('post_type=page'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<p>
<?php
global $wp_query;
$postid = $wp_query->post->ID;
echo get_post_meta($postid, 'description', true);
?>
</p>
More info
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
UPDATE 2: Solved it! Used the following if anyone's interested.
Pulled in all subpages from parent page (id=7).
Then the post thumbnail, followed by the page title, description using a custom field called description and finally the permalink.
Hope this helps anyone in a similar situation.
<?php query_posts('post_type=page&post_parent=7'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_post_thumbnail('culture-page-listing'); ?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<p>
<?php
global $wp_query;
$postid = $wp_query->post->ID;
echo get_post_meta($postid, 'description', true);
?>
</p>
More info
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

Answer 1

I wrote a loop in WP some time ago which I'm sure isn't perfect, but it did basically something like that (delimited by categories).
http://www.kyleboddy.com/2010/10/14/wordpress-code-attachment-category-loop/
<?php
$areas = array(1 => 'Seattle','East Side & Mercer Island','North Side','South Side');
$slugs = array(1 => 'seattle-jobs','east-side-and-mercer-island-jobs','north-end-jobs','south-end-and-west-seattle-jobs');
$i = count($areas);
$n = 1;
while ($n <= $i)
{
global $post;
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=-1&offset=0&category_name=' . $slugs[$n]);
echo '<div id="imageList">';
echo '<a name="' . $areas[$n] . '"></a><h2>' . $areas[$n] . '</h2>';
echo '<table id="ourwork"><tr>';
$x = 1;
foreach($myposts as $post)
{
setup_postdata($post);
echo '<td>';
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'attachment',
'numberposts' => '-1',
'post_status' => null,
'post_parent' => $post->ID
);
$attachments = get_posts($args);
if ($attachments) {
$y = count($attachments);
$y--;
echo '<a href="' . $post->guid . '">';
echo wp_get_attachment_image($id = $attachments[$y]->ID, $size=array(200,133), $icon = false);
echo '<strong><br><br>';
echo apply_filters('the_title', $attachments[$y]->post_title);
echo '</strong></a>';
echo '</td>';
if ($x == 4)
{
echo '</tr><tr>';
$x = 0;
}
$x++;
}
}
echo '</tr></table>';
echo '</div><div class="blog"></div>';
$n++;
}