One approach is: //… // this is the resulted paragraph without the enclosing <p> and </p> $first_para_inner_text = $matches [1] [1]; // <– the index changed $link = get_permalink($post); // rebuilding the p $first_para=”<p>” . $first_para_inner_text . ‘ <a href=”‘.$link.'”>Read More</a></p>’; echo $first_para; Not tested, but you may get the idea. Just need to modify/change … Read more
I know toscho doesn’t like this very much, but anyway: Converted the input args to an array: function utf8_truncate( $args = array( ‘string’ => null, ‘max_chars’ => 200, ‘append’ => “\xC2\xA0…” ) ) { $args[‘string’] = strip_tags( $args[‘string’] ); $args[‘string’] = html_entity_decode( $args[‘string’], ENT_QUOTES, ‘utf-8’ ); // \xC2\xA0 is the no-break space $args[‘string’] = trim( … Read more
The simple way to do this is to define the height/width in CSS of a container, and then apply a trim on the excerpt. To change default excerpt length add this to you functions.php function new_excerpt_length($length) { return 100; // change this to how many any characters you want } add_filter(‘excerpt_length’, ‘new_excerpt_length’); Manually controlling the … Read more
I think you have to setup_postdata() with get_posts() to get things that rely on global variables to work. or explicitly pass the post id with the function.
I’m going to assume that you’re calling get_blog_excerpt() in your template somewhere? If so, what happens if you simply call the_excerpt(), and then pull the two add_filter() calls out of the container function? i.e. functions.php would just look like: function ce4_excerpt_length($length) { return 150; } add_filter(‘excerpt_length’, ‘ce4_excerpt_length’); function ce4_excerpt_more($more) { global $post; return ‘…<a href=”‘. … Read more
The Facebook Page Publish plugin is adding the og:description. Looking through the code in fpp_index.php at lines 843 – 851: $description = array(); if ($options[‘show_post_author’]) { $description[] = esc_attr(fpp_get_post_author($post));/*, ENT_COMPAT, ‘UTF-8’)*/ } if ($options[‘show_post_categories’]) { $categories = esc_attr(fpp_get_post_categories($post));/*, ENT_COMPAT, ‘UTF-8’)*/ if (!empty($categories)) $description[] = $categories; } echo ‘<meta property=”og:description” content=”‘.implode(‘ | ‘, $description).'”/>’; It appears … Read more
Looks like my other answer wasn’t working, so I looked into it and found this: http://aaronrussell.co.uk/legacy/improving-wordpress-the_excerpt/ That article should give you all you need to keep the <p> tags in there.
Try using $post->post_excerpt instead: // globalize $post, just in case global $post; // find out if the post has a defined excerpt $data = $post->post_excerpt; // If so, output something if ($data) echo “<div class=”excerpt”>$data</div>”; This method will bypass the auto-excerpt generation inherent in get_the_excerpt(). EDIT By popular demand, the same code, using has_excerpt(): // … Read more
I recently wrote code that I just put into a new page template that does exactly this. The all you do is assign the parent pages that specific template (or any page you wish to have this functionality on) and then it’ll list it’s child pages with their featured images as thumbs. Getting a plugin … Read more
You could always use the has_excerpt() function to test for excerpt content and if it is not filled in you could display a message. Example: if( has_excerpt() ) { the_excerpt(); } else { echo ‘<p>Please enter the excerpt.</p>’; }