If there are no manual excerpts added to the Post, WordPress picks the content itself as excerpt for that Post. You may either put the excerpts for Posts manually or apply_filter(‘the_excerpt’, ‘modify_excerpt’) and remove the unwanted text from the excerpt. The function code-structure will remain almost the same, with the exception that now you will … Read more
Check out this tutorial: http://jshamsul.com/2012/02/08/wordpress-get-first-paragraph-from-post/ There the author puts all the paragraphs into array. So you could possibly pull out the first, second, thrid… paragraphs from that array. As for smashingmagazine.com styling the first paragraph. They do it with CSS :first-child pseudo-class like this: p:first-child { /* your styles */ } More info about :first-child … Read more
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From looking at the plugins code in repo SVN trunk, you have only the option to add the_advanced_excerpt() manually in code. So simply don’t add it, or did I miss something?
Here is a custom function I’ve written to modify your excerpt however you want. You should NOT be changing any core files to make modifications, as these will be overwritten by any updates made to the WordPress framework: remove_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘wp_trim_excerpt’); add_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘preserve_excerpt_format’); function preserve_excerpt_format($text) { global $post; $raw_excerpt = $text; if (” == $text ) … Read more
Excerpt is stored in database and available in post object only if it was added manually in post editor. Do not access such properties directly, use template tags instead – get_the_excerpt() in this case.
the_post – Iterate the post index in The Loop. Retrieves the next post, sets up the post, sets the ‘in the loop’ property to true. while (have_posts()) { the_post(); after you trigger the_post your the_excerpt shold return different values.
You need to have ‘excerpt’ => ‘yes’, ‘excerpt_size’ => ‘100’, ‘content’ => ‘no’ … when get_excerpt runs. You can set $params like that but what you posted is not all of the code. It is using $this which means it is part of a class (or you’d get errors). Somewhere in that class something might … Read more
Use “wp_reset_postdata();” right after “endwhile;” seems like your second query fetching link from your previous query.
Don’t use get_the_excerpt. Just do something like: if (is_singular() && isset($post->post_excerpt)) { echo ‘<meta name=”description” content=”‘.esc_attr($post->post_excerpt).'” />’; } $post is populated long before the Loop. For “single” pages it will be populated with the post to be displayed. You can grab it very early in the page load. For other types of pages– archives, capital … Read more