Why don’t you use the global $post variable? It contains an object with the content as it is on the db row corresponding to that post. Here’s how to use it: global $post; // If for some reason it’s readily accessible, invoke it if($post->post_excerpt != ”) { echo($post->post_excerpt); } Or: $my_post = get_post($post_id); if($my_post->post_excerpt != … Read more
Take a look on my answer here: Best Collection of Code for your functions.php file If I understood your question correctly, it does what you are looking for. Place this in functions.php: function excerpt($num) { $limit = $num+1; $excerpt = explode(‘ ‘, get_the_excerpt(), $limit); array_pop($excerpt); $excerpt = implode(” “,$excerpt).”… (<a href=”” .get_permalink($post->ID) .” “>Read more</a>)”; … Read more
There is no filter that would allow you to set allowable tags not to be removed by the_excerpt(). Arguably a shortcoming of the core. Anyhow, the actual excerpt generation does not happen in that template tag but entirely elsewhere: Excerpts are generated by the function wp_trim_excerpt(), inside of which the excerpt filters you are already … Read more
EDIT OK, there is a very hidden native function, get_extended() that I never knew about and greatly explained by @kaiser in his answer. My answer should only be an extension to the answer by @kaiser ORIGINAL ANSWER There is no native function to do this. The best here would be to use a PHP function … Read more
Paste this in your theme’s functions.php file add_filter( ‘the_excerpt’, ‘shortcode_unautop’); add_filter( ‘the_excerpt’, ‘do_shortcode’);
Just replace the default output. Make sure you unescape the excerpt before you send it to the editor: add_action( ‘add_meta_boxes’, array ( ‘T5_Richtext_Excerpt’, ‘switch_boxes’ ) ); /** * Replaces the default excerpt editor with TinyMCE. */ class T5_Richtext_Excerpt { /** * Replaces the meta boxes. * * @return void */ public static function switch_boxes() { … Read more
Put the following code in functions.php to show “read more” on all post types except custom_post_type. function excerpt_read_more_link($output) { global $post; if ($post->post_type != ‘custom_post_type’) { $output .= ‘<p><a href=”‘. get_permalink($post->ID) . ‘”>read more</a></p>’; } return $output; } add_filter(‘the_excerpt’, ‘excerpt_read_more_link’);
What you’re trying to do with the video is exactly what Post Formats were created to handle. Add this to functions: add_theme_support( ‘post-formats’, array( ‘video’ ) ); And then this to handle your Read More link: if( !has_post_format( ‘video’ ) ) { echo ‘<a href=”‘ . get_permalink() . ‘”>Read More…</a>’; } else { echo ‘<a … Read more
On the post edit page, if you fill Excerpt box with any text, the_excerpt() function doesn’t add read more link or … at the end of the short description at frontend. Read more link is only included if Excerpt is set empty. This is not a bug, it’s a default behavior. The solution is to … Read more
Turns out the answer was in wp_trim_excerpt(). It’s defined in wp-includes/functions.php:1879: /** * Generates an excerpt from the content, if needed. * * The excerpt word amount will be 55 words and if the amount is greater than * that, then the string ‘ […]’ will be appended to the excerpt. If the string * … Read more