Not sure if this is what you looking for… To display excerpt of specific page, you can use this code: <?php $post_id = 2; // substitute to your page id $my_post = get_post($post_id); echo “<p>$my_post->post_excerpt</p>”; echo ‘<a href=”‘.get_permalink( $post_id ).'”>read more</a>’; ?>
Excerpts remove all mark-up and shortcodes. Try adding the following into your functions.php: add_filter(‘the_excerpt’, ‘do_shortcode’); This should enable shortcodes in your excerpt again. Bear in mind the generated HTML5 will be stripped out.
function excerpt($limit) { $excerpt = explode(‘ ‘, get_the_excerpt(), $limit); if (count($excerpt)>=$limit) { array_pop($excerpt); $excerpt = implode(” “,$excerpt).’…’; } else { $excerpt = implode(” “,$excerpt); } $excerpt = preg_replace(‘`\[[^\]]*\]`’,”,$excerpt); return $excerpt; } write below code in your template. <?php echo excerpt(25); ?>
Go with the_excerpt. It does what it is supposed to do. Give you an excerpt of your post. Traditionally, it is set to display the first 55 words of your post. You can tweak it using filters to give more (or less) if needed to be. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt
Use: apply_filters( ‘get_the_excerpt’, $post->post_excerpt ) This will fill the excerpt with the first words from post_content when there is no excerpt, because the default filters will take care of that.
Are you aware of the uses of the More Tag? Customizing the Read More shows many uses of variable length teasers with variable link phrases to read more. For example, this markup entered in the Post editor will provide a link with Read the rest of this story in the anchor text. <!–more Read the … Read more
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No need for this anymore. You can use the Template Builder in the settings of GD-Star Rating self. Scroll to the bottom right if you have clicked on “Builder” and add a new template. Choose your own settings and paste the function or shortcode in your, respectively, page via the backend or page via WordPress. … Read more
Images are embedded in post content as pretty much straight HTML. <a href=”http://192.168.1.10/wp_release/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/boat.jpg”> <img src=”http://192.168.1.10/wp_release/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/boat.jpg?w=300″ alt=”” title=”boat” class=”size-medium wp-image-544″ height=”198″ width=”300″> </a> There is no easy way to alter that. You can alter it, but it means regexing the post body content or using an html parser like Simple HTML DOM Parser (Not an endorsement, … Read more
you can use this code; function new_excerpt_more( $more ) { return ‘ <div id=”daha”><a class=”read-more” href=”‘. get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) . ‘”>Read More</a></div>’; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_more’, ‘new_excerpt_more’ );