You can use mb_substr(), which is safe to use on multibyte strings. I ran a quick test on my local installation of PHP: php > $str=”éééééé”; php > var_dump( substr( $str, 0, 3 ) ); string(3) “é�” php > var_dump( mb_substr( $str, 0, 3 ) ); string(6) “ééé” php > var_dump( mb_substr( ‘abcdef’, 0, 3 … Read more
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It seems to me that your code runs too early, i.e. before WordPress determined what the queried object is, i.e. whether it’s for a single post, a category archive, a search results page, etc. Such issue could happen if you added the code “just like that” to your theme’s functions file, so try doing it … Read more
Remove: add_filter( ‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘replace_post_excerpt_filter’ ); function replace_post_excerpt_filter($output) { return $output; } from your code, and you should find it works. The trouble with nested functions, as you have here, is that once the parent function is called the first time, it defines the inner function, but when the parent function is called the second time … Read more
You can use the default filter for the length of the_excerpt // Changing excerpt length function new_excerpt_length($length) { return 40; } add_filter(‘excerpt_length’, ‘new_excerpt_length’);