Try wp_trim_words() https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_trim_words You won’t be able to use it with the_content() though because it echoes the content. You’ll want to use it with get_the_content() which just returns the info. So it’d look something like this echo wp_trim_words( get_the_content(), $num_words, $more_text ); Edit: It’s good to note that the_content and get_the_content will return/echo any HTML … Read more
You can use the_content filter, to literally filter the content into your structure. Somthing like this <?php add_filter(‘the_content’,function($the_content){ // find blockquotes $regex = ‘/<blockquote>(.+?)<\/blockquote>([\n|$])/i’; $blockquotes = preg_match_all($regex,$the_content,$matches); // remove blockquotes $main_content = preg_replace($regex,”,$the_content); // rebuild blockqoutes $my_blockquotes=””; foreach ($matches[1] as $blockquote) { $my_blockquotes .= “<blockquote>{$blockquote}</blockquote>”; } // rebuild content $new_content=””; if (!empty($my_blockquotes)) { $new_content = … Read more
You need to return the filtered content, try like this: add_filter(‘the_content’, ’emd_content’); function emd_content( $content ) { if ( is_page(‘Member Directory’) ) { include dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/content-members.php’; } elseif ( is_page(‘Contact Members’) ) { include dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/content-member-contact-form.php’; } else { return $content; } } But the better way is to … Read more
This simply doesn’t work. WordPress resizes the images while uploading, so if you don’t upload them again, nothing will happen.
Based on your comment clarifying what you want to achieve, it appears you want to display the first 60 characters of your post not including any shortcodes. To do this you can use the strip_shortcodes() function. Rewritten with that, your code will look like this: $content = strip_shortcodes(get_the_content()); $content = apply_filters(‘the_content’, substr($content, 0, 60) ); … Read more
Since you don’t explain what functionality you’re trying to achieve, I assume you want to do one of these thing. If you’re going to put that block in the post content you can achieve that by using WordPress shortcode If you’re going to use that block as part of the layout, you might want to … Read more
I think I see what’s happening here. You need to add a ; after the time – <?php the_time(‘d/m/y’); ?> Even though I’m a bit surprised you got an output at all.
sorry to mark this as an answer for some reason I can’t comment on this question. Can you explain more what you mean by “I have a list of posts (with excerpts) being displayed in the page using Short Tags.”? Do you have a list of posts excerpts displayed on the front and some number … Read more
There’s a fast and easy tutorial for writing your own has_shortcode() function over at WP tuts.
we can solve this problem by creating a shortcode so that you can insert the featured image where ever you want through the editor itself.Shortcode is a keyword that we created.Any number of custom shortcodes can be created and used either in template or in editor as like wordpress default shortcodes like . write a … Read more