You could make a plugin which adds a meta box in admin, where you can add a link to a youtube/vimeo video. The plugin should then save the url as meta data for that article when the article is saved. When listing the articles (or viewing a single one), check if the meta data value … Read more
Not the best solution but this works fine: <?php remove_filter(‘the_excerpt’, ‘wpautop’); ?>
If the following code is in-fact the code that is controlling your read more link then you perhaps the following may work; if ($show_more_tag) { global $post; $excerpt = $excerpt . ‘ <a class=”more-link” href=”‘ . $perma_link . ‘”>’ . get_the_title($post->ID) . ‘ </a>’; } I’ve declared global $post; again, just in case the above … Read more
Here’s a solution that should do what you want (per your questions in comments and chat): Functions.php function wpse102641_custom_excerpt_length( $length ) { // assuming your category is called “Stories” if ( is_category( ‘Stories’ ) ) { return 50; } // return default length return $length; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘wpse102641_custom_excerpt_length’, 999 ); References Codex: is_category()
Remove the read more with this code in your functions.php: function wpse_230169_excerpt_more($more) { return ”; } add_filter(‘excerpt_more’, ‘wpse_230169_excerpt_more’); Then in your template file just add the link wherever you want with: <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/230169/<?php the_permalink(); ?>”>Read More</a>
Ok, I’ve found the answer myself through a lot of Googling 🙂 If anyone else is struggling, this pastebin provides a solid solution for stripping out headings from the excerpts. The solution was provided by Michael at the WordPress Support Forum.
How do the websites that are well optimized for sharing and excerpt displays are handling this subject ? They definitely have separate fields for excerpt / share-text etc. This is the only way to be certain what text gets used. These sites also make use of special meta tags in the head to send Facebook, … Read more
get_the_excerpt() returns the excerpt, but only after applying get_the_excerpt filters to it. This causes infinite recursion, as your filter handler will be called to an infinite depth. Of course, the best solution is the css one (see @spacegrrl’s answer), but if you have your reasons for keeping that <span>, please note that the excerpt can … Read more
Something along these lines should work, not tested for syntax errors though function random_post() { $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 1, ); $post = query_posts( $args ); } if(!$post->post_excerpt){ random_post(); } // Then down here you would do whatever with the $post object
So you are basically also looking for a fallback in case your excerpt is empty? I suppose this question/answer could be helpful for you: “get_the_excerpt() with fallback like the_excerpt()“. It describes, how to build your own “excerpt” in case there is none – like this: $excerpt = get_the_content(); $excerpt = esc_attr( strip_tags( stripslashes( $excerpt ) ) … Read more