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
It’s simple, just unregister postexcerpt box first then add another one on the top. Here is my code add_action( ‘admin_menu’, function () { remove_meta_box(‘postexcerpt’, ‘post’, ‘normal’); }, 999 ); add_action(‘edit_form_after_title’, ‘post_excerpt_meta_box’);
add these lines in function.php file function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) { return 20; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘custom_excerpt_length’, 999 );
Use wp_strip_all_tags() to remove the content of script and style elements too: echo wp_strip_all_tags( get_the_content() );
The codex is your friend and should be your first stop 🙂 The […] is added by the_excerpt(). There is a filter supplied called the excerpt_more filter that is specifically included to customize the read more text after the excerpt To remove the […] after the excerpt text, you can do the following function new_excerpt_more( … Read more
This requires PHP 5.3+ (WP requires PHP 5.2.4+) add_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘end_with_sentence’); function end_with_sentence($excerpt) { $allowed_end = array(‘.’, ‘!’, ‘?’, ‘…’); $exc = explode( ‘ ‘, $excerpt ); $found = false; $last=””; while ( ! $found && ! empty($exc) ) { $last = array_pop($exc); $end = strrev( $last ); $found = in_array( $end{0}, $allowed_end ); } return … Read more
Since WP 3.3.0, wp_trim_words() is helpful if you’re able to get the content that you want to generate an excerpt for. Hope that’s helpful to someone and it saves creating your own word counting function. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_trim_words
Hi @Robin I. Knight: I view get_the_excerpt() as a function with legacy design. As WordPress usage has grown there are many newer use-cases where it doesn’t fit but where the newer functions for getting different data do. One example is the now frequent use of an $args array of function options. But it’s easy to … Read more
I found this question when looking how to do this without the post object. My additional research turned up this slick technique: $text = apply_filters(‘the_excerpt’, get_post_field(‘post_excerpt’, $post_id));
COMPLETE GUIDE TO EXCERPTS I’ve recently answered a few questions regarding excerpts, so I’m going to give a detailed explanation covering as much as I can. PREFACE There seems to be a couple of questions arising from this answer on where the code should go, and the answer is, it is really up to you … Read more