Looking at your site, the problem seems to be a little different. For every post, the excerpt of the first post is shown. And not just once, but three times. This happens only on the website, but not the RSS feed or the REST API. Since the code you provided looks fine, it seems that … Read more
Are you sure the flatsome_string_limit_words hook exists inside the string_limit_words function? I think your best option is to override whole post-simple.php template in your child, but even this depends on how is built the parent theme.
As you can see from the source of get_the_excerpt there is a filter toward the end to modify the result. This is probably the most future proof approach. If at some point the blog will have manually written excerpts, these will be used. That would not be the case if you write a custom function … Read more
Solution one: As the wise commenter mentioned, you can use excerpts. the_excerpt() (link) “retrieves the post excerpt”. get_the_excerpt() is going to be a string so you can wrap it up in whatever you fancy and after that, you can call the_content() to get the rest. The only downside that I see is that you’ll have … Read more
When you search on wp it automatically does a search query. In your code you make a new WP_Query to show 5 posts (which sorts by data by default) and there is no need to do that. The best thing to do here is to leave the search.php file as it is and use an … Read more
If it’s just needed in one place, you could use the following: echo wp_strip_all_tags( get_the_excerpt() ); Keep in mind, using the custom excerpt field will automatically remove all tags. Creating an excerpt automatically from the post content will not. If you want more control, you can use wp_trim_excerpt() or wp_trim_words(). See: Using wp_trim_excerpt to get … Read more
Any PHP code in the post content will get stripped out and not executed. This is a safety issue; you don’t want to allow authors to put in executable code. To display code in a post, BTW, you would surround it with the <code> tag, If you want to modify what the excerpt displays, you … Read more
You can use filters to change the excerpt length. (It goes in your theme or child theme’s functions.php) function wpdocs_custom_excerpt_length( $length ) { return 70; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘wpdocs_custom_excerpt_length’, 999 ); At this point I usually also like to change the part that gets added to the end of a truncated excerpt to something like … Read more
I think this is more a PHP than a WP question. Try using a regular expression with preg_match: $theExcerpt = get_the_content(); $returnValue = preg_match(‘/(string01)(.*)(string02)/’, $theExcerpt); echo $returnValue[0]; You have to replace string01 and string02 with your ‘begining of paragraph’ and ‘end of paragraph’. There might be a more elegant way of using preg_match, but I … Read more
In WordPress using the Gutenberg Block Editor, in the control panel to the right, you have an excerpt box: In the Classic Editor you have a metabox under the main post content area: If you don’t see it there, go to the top of your screen, on the right under the WP Admin Bar, click … Read more