I’m not quite clear if your saying you can call the excerpt but it’s not showing up or if you don’t know the function to show the excerpt. If it’s the former it might be a CSS issue, if the latter the following should do the trick: <div class=”content-summary”> <?php the_excerpt(); ?> </div> You can … Read more
The top answer to this question handles dynamically altering the length of your excerpt using a custom excerpt function.
Excerpt formatting for Google News Feed [closed]
I don’t have a complete answer for you. But I can point out that you should use the filter hook provided in the function bp_blog_latest_post() So something like: add_filter(‘bp_get_blog_latest_post’, ‘your_function’, 1); function your_function( ) { global $blogs_template; $str = // build your string to include excerpt and thumbnail return $str; } I don’t recall if … Read more
Show excerpts of posts on P2 Home page
Here’s the hacky way I figured it out: if ( preg_match( ‘/<!–more–>/’, $post->post_content ) ) { $content = apply_filters( ‘the_content’, get_the_content( ” ) ); echo ( $content ); } else { the_excerpt(); } (Note that I have a separate “Read More” link after this snippet; if you’re wanting to use The Content’s default Read More … Read more
Try a simple string replacement. The following is untested: function fabs_excerpt_more($output) { global $post; $output = str_replace(‘</p>’, ‘<a class=”more” href=”‘. get_permalink($post->ID) . ‘”>></a></p>’, $output); return $output; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_more’, ‘fabs_excerpt_more’ );
Query Pages and post excerpts dynamically
Global $post variable is filled on by running post through the loop (the_post() method or function, setup_postdata() function). If you look at the source for Walker_Page it is not running a loop and so does not make posts’ data available through $post. Since excerpt_more is not provided with info on the post either, you would … Read more
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