Excerpt textarea missing on post editing page in admin panel
Upper right corner in posts editing page > “Screen Options”…there you have to check “Excerpt” 😉
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can the_excerpt function also get images?
Ensure that your Theme supports Post Thumbnails, and that the client sets a “Featured Image” for each post. Then, combine the_excerpt() with the_post_thumbnail(), e.g. like so: <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> <div id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>” <?php post_class(); ?>> <div class=”featured-image”><?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?></div> <div class=”post-excerpt”><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div> </div> … Read more
wp_trim_words() does not trim the_content() in WordPress
The problem lies in this line: <?php echo wp_trim_words( the_content(), 55, $moreLink); ?> You call the_content function in there. This function prints all the content and doesn’t return anything. It means that you print the content, and then pass an empty string to the wp_trim_words. It should be: <?php echo wp_trim_words( get_the_content(), 55, $moreLink); ?> … Read more
How to Display Post Excerpts in Admin by Default?
The names of unchecked boxes in Screen Options for Edit Post screen are stored in user’s meta, per individual user, as an array. Insert the following code in your theme’s functions.php: function wpse_edit_post_show_excerpt( $user_login, $user ) { $unchecked = get_user_meta( $user->ID, ‘metaboxhidden_post’, true ); $key = array_search( ‘postexcerpt’, $unchecked ); if ( FALSE !== $key … Read more
Manual excerpts for pages not working on Search
You’re confusing “post type support” – which means enabling “feature” (and therefore MetaBoxes) for a post – with templating. Go into your theme, search for the search.php template in the folder. Add a Child Theme Add a file named search.php to your Child theme and copy/paste the content of your parent themes template file in … Read more
Neither the_excerpt() nor the_content() works properly?
Your requirements slant towards using the_excerpt() with adding read more link by custom code: print 55 words – already this by default and adjustable via excerpt_length filter but react to <!–more–> – this already happens, auto-generated excerpt cannot be longer than teaser (part from start of post to <!–more–> tag) and if manual excerpt is … Read more
How to call the_excerpt() with tags or the_content() as an excerpt?
Actually, I just did something like this for a Drupal site. I based my truncation function on this: Truncate text preserving HTML tags with PHP Use the final version of the function at the end of the comments. The function takes its $length parameter in characters, not words, but you can probably use the general … Read more
How to override function in functions.php of parent theme?
Hi using Function Reference/remove action and usingFunction Reference/remove filter.using these two functions only we can overriding the functions.
Twenty Eleven home page show only excerpt
The template you’re actually after is “content.php” You’ll want to change this line: <?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?> <div class=”entry-summary”> <?php the_excerpt(); ?> </div><!– .entry-summary –> <?php else : ?> <div class=”entry-content”> <?php the_content( __( ‘Continue reading <span class=”meta-nav”>→</span>’, ‘twentyeleven’ ) ); ?> <?php wp_link_pages( array( ‘before’ … Read more
limit the words in the post content and add read more link
I always have the same problem with post excerpt, post content. There’re various hooks and functions for this purpose, like @kaiser pointed out. But sometimes they don’t do exactly what I want. Here’s my solution, I write my own function that take the post content, and truncate it into specified number of words: function wpse69204_excerpt( … Read more