Using the PHP strip_tags() function should clean out the unwanted HTML elements. <?php echo strip_tags( $post->post_excerpt ); ?>
I use wp_trim_words to create multiple excerpts. I always abuse it when I need more than one excerpt length. Here is how function wpse_custom_excerpts($limit) { return wp_trim_words(get_the_excerpt(), $limit, ‘<a href=”‘. esc_url( get_permalink() ) . ‘”>’ . ‘ …’ . __( ‘Read more »’, ‘wpse’ ) . ‘</a>’); } What this function do is taking get_the_excerpt trimming … Read more
I’m sure if you did some more research you would find this as it’s been asked many times before. If you just want all expert to return the value of 15 then you have to add something like this to your functions.php // Customize excerpt word count length function custom_excerpt_length() { return 15; } add_filter(‘excerpt_length’, … Read more
It looks like your index.php file calls the content-page.php file. The code you are looking to change is probably in the content-page.php file. The key is this line: get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘page’ ); It is directing WordPress to load content-page.php
The following code will query the “blog” category for the latest three published posts and loop through these results to display the excerpt from each. $args = array( ‘category_name’ => ‘blog’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 3, ); $blog_posts = new WP_Query( $args ); if ( $blog_posts->have_posts() ): while ( $blog_posts->have_posts() ): $blog_posts->the_post(); // Do … Read more
Filters are for modifying values before they are output. Typically the function is passed some value where you can modify it or overwrite it, then pass the result back. Your link is appearing out of place because you’re outputting the value directly, change it to return instead. Also note that most template tags have versions … Read more
I edited the wp_playlist_shortcode function at \wp-includes\media.php WP core file, by adding if ($atts[‘orderby’]==’excerpt’ || $atts[‘orderby’]==’post_excerpt’) { function cmp($a, $b) { return strcmp($a[“caption”], $b[“caption”])*(-1); } usort($tracks, “cmp”); } before $data[‘tracks’] = $tracks; line. Basically after all tracks are generated into the $tracks array and before this array is passed to the final array $data, I … Read more
Try to using this in your function.php file and let me know if any query add_post_type_support( ‘page’, ‘excerpt’ );
You can create the custom post types for Press Releases, News etc with external website links with this plugin. You have to just list those custom post types where you want to display those.
There are various ways to achieve this as listed following. Using wordwrap() function : function shortened_description($cutlength) { $content = get_field(‘event_short_description’); $charcount = strlen($content); $content = wordwrap($content, 28); $content = explode(“\n”, $content); $shorter = $content[0]; if ($charcount >= $cutlength) { echo $shorter . ‘… <a href=”‘ . get_permalink() . ‘”>more ></a>’; } //$charcount >= $cutlength else … Read more