I would just get the raw content from $post->post_content, strip the <!–more–> and then do whatever you need with the result. Just remember, $post->post_content and get_the_content() both return unfiltered text, if you need filtered content, simply apply the the_content filter to the result from those two results EXAMPLE inside the LOOP global $post; $unfiltered_content = … Read more
I see several things that may be contributing to your issue. First, you’re using a custom page template to display the blog posts index, instead of using home.php as specified by the Template Hierarchy. That might be a problem, because the <!–more–> tag doesn’t work on singular pages, and since you’re doing funky things with … Read more
using: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_content#Overriding_Archive.2FSingle_Page_Behavior and the $strip_teaser parameter: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_content#Usage in single.php, replace <?php the_content(); ?> with: <?php if( strpos(get_the_content(), ‘<span id=”more-‘) ) : ?> <div class=”before-more”> <?php global $more; $more=0; the_content(”); $more=1; ?> </div> <?php endif; ?> <?php the_content(”, true); ?>
I actually never got to add this section to my answer you are referring to. To remove the read more link from the excerpt is quite easy, you just need to compare $count with $excerpt_length. $count will always be between 0 and the value assigned to $excerpt_length. So what we want to do here is … Read more
What (exactly) happens When calling the_content() inside your template, you are able to call it without any parameters. This means, that the function already has the defaults of null for both arguments: The “more” link text and the boolean switch that allows you to strip teaser content before the “more” link text. The the_content() function … Read more
The problem with what you’re trying to do is that you split a block type html element <p>. In your example you effectively have <p><div></p></div>, which is simply no good. So you cannot mix <p> and <div> in this way. You can, however use a combination of paragraphs and classes: <p>Text</p><p class=”hide-from-here”>More text</p> Where it … Read more
Quite simply put: there is no built in function that does the same thing as your code above. Bonus content: More tag tricks
Put the following code in functions.php to show “read more” on all post types except custom_post_type. function excerpt_read_more_link($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’);
You can use the WordPress function get_extended to fetch the different parts of a string (the part before and the part after the <!–more–> tag). get_extended returns an array with three keys, of which the keys main and extended are important: $arr[‘main’] contains the part before the more tag, and $arr[‘extended’] the part after the … Read more
This requires PHP 5.3+ (WP requires PHP 5.2.4+) add_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘end_with_sentence’); function end_with_sentence($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