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Customise Excerpt start and end

The Search Everything plugin supports “Search Highlighting” in the results page which should produce the results you are looking for. We have no way of knowing how customized the search results page is in your specific project though. You may find that you are fighting an up hill battle until you (or someone on your … Read more

How to remove first three words from content and display the excerpt

Here’s a quick way to do it, assuming $excerpt has your excerpt you want to remove the first 3 words from $excerpt = “the content starts this is the excerpt”; $words = explode(‘ ‘, $excerpt); array_shift($words); // 1st word array_shift($words); // 2nd word array_shift($words); // 3rd word $excerpt = implode(‘ ‘, $words); It splits the … Read more

Excerpt_length nor the_excerpt not working correctly

the_excerpt() … Displays the excerpt of the current post after applying several filters to it including auto-p formatting which turns double line-breaks into HTML paragraphs. It uses get_the_excerpt() to first generate a trimmed-down version of the full post content should there not be an explicit excerpt for the post. get_the_excerpt() applies the get_the_excerpt filter, to … Read more

Bug in the_excerpt() function

You can wrap your output in the has_excerpt function, this checks if the post has a custom excerpt. if (!function_exists(‘sociality_excerpt_more’)) { function sociality_excerpt_more($more) { if ( has_excerpt() ) { return $more . ‘&nbsp<a class=”read-more p-color” rel=”bookmark” title=”‘. get_the_title() .'” href=”‘. get_permalink($post->ID) . ‘”>’. esc_html__(‘View more’,’g5plus-handmade’) .'<i class=”pe-7s-right-arrow”></i></a>’; } else { return $more; } } add_filter(‘the_excerpt’, … Read more

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