All good examples. But they weren’t working for me with the theme (pinboard) and plugin I was using (secondary-html-content) and what I wanted to do. The first challenge was to make sure that I get both pieces of content instead of just one. The second challenge was to replace the excerpt on the homepage with … Read more
Try to go in a completely different way about that and this code to your functions.php // Variable excerpt length. function dynamic_excerpt($length) { // Variable excerpt length. Length is set in characters global $post; $text = $post->post_excerpt; if ( ” == $text ) { $text = get_the_content(”); $text = apply_filters(‘the_content’, $text); $text = str_replace(‘]]>’, ‘]]>’, … Read more
You need to hook into two WordPress filters. function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) { return 20; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘custom_excerpt_length’, 999 ); http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/excerpt_length function custom_excerpt_more( $more ) { return ‘[…..]’; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_more’, ‘custom_excerpt_more’ ); http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/excerpt_more
You are using more tag to split article into teaser and rest of content. “More” link assumes that reader already done with former and tries to navigate browser to that point in full article. Codex has modifying this behavior documented in Customizing the Read More > Prevent Page Scroll When Clicking the More Link and … Read more
You need to be using setup_postdata($post); as in all of the examples for get_posts. You need: $myposts = get_posts(‘numberposts=5’); foreach($myposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); // the rest of your function
You need to be using setup_postdata foreach($all_posts as $post): setup_postdata($post); // the rest of your loop If you look at the docs for get_posts you will see that in all of the examples.
If you manually provide an excerpt for the post WordPress will use the one you provided instead of automatically generating one. Any HTML links you include in your manual excerpt will still be displayed correctly. Or you can leave the links out and just include the text you want. To preserve HTML links in the … Read more
Try making the post object accessible using global and use get_permalink($post->ID) function new_excerpt_more( $more ) { global $post; return ‘<a class=”read-more” href=”‘. get_permalink($post->ID) . ‘”>Custom text</a>’; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_more’, ‘new_excerpt_more’ ); Ensure the code is in your functions.php file.
You can use the wp_trim_excerpt() to get the excerpt of the content. You can use it inside your loop to get the excerpt of each post the string provided to a maximum of 55 words if it is more then a […] will be added to the end of the string. <?php $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts(array(‘post_type’=>’jokes’)); … Read more
$nex_obj = get_adjacent_post(false, ”, true); If there is an adjacent (previous) post, this should work. You should be able to get the excerpt with: echo $nex_obj->post_excerpt; However, what you will get is the manually created excerpt. If you are expecting the automatically created excerpt you won’t get it. That is created on display from the … Read more