By default character length for excerpt is 55.Just use this code instead.For more details refer to codex function new_excerpt_more( $length ) { return 100; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘new_excerpt_more’, 999 );
You probably have the excerpt set to hidden in the edit screen. Open your post for editing, click the Screen Options in the top right corner of screen, and then check the Excerpt box. After that, you can see the excerpt as a box in the edit post screen.
If the post does not have a manual excerpt (as in one added to the Excerpt box on the post edit screen) then get_the_excerpt() used wp_trim_excerpt() to generate an excerpt. The problem is that wp_trim_excerpt() uses the content of the global $post object, which is set in the loop, regardless of any ID passed to … Read more
As you can see from the source of get_the_excerpt there is a filter toward the end to modify the result. This is probably the most future proof approach. If at some point the blog will have manually written excerpts, these will be used. That would not be the case if you write a custom function … Read more
Solution one: As the wise commenter mentioned, you can use excerpts. the_excerpt() (link) “retrieves the post excerpt”. get_the_excerpt() is going to be a string so you can wrap it up in whatever you fancy and after that, you can call the_content() to get the rest. The only downside that I see is that you’ll have … Read more
Any PHP code in the post content will get stripped out and not executed. This is a safety issue; you don’t want to allow authors to put in executable code. To display code in a post, BTW, you would surround it with the <code> tag, If you want to modify what the excerpt displays, you … Read more
You can use filters to change the excerpt length. (It goes in your theme or child theme’s functions.php) function wpdocs_custom_excerpt_length( $length ) { return 70; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘wpdocs_custom_excerpt_length’, 999 ); At this point I usually also like to change the part that gets added to the end of a truncated excerpt to something like … Read more
I think this is more a PHP than a WP question. Try using a regular expression with preg_match: $theExcerpt = get_the_content(); $returnValue = preg_match(‘/(string01)(.*)(string02)/’, $theExcerpt); echo $returnValue[0]; You have to replace string01 and string02 with your ‘begining of paragraph’ and ‘end of paragraph’. There might be a more elegant way of using preg_match, but I … Read more
Hi @janoChen: Are you sure that code it running and not some other code? I just traced through the code and the only way it’s going to do that is if you have a plugin or code in your theme that is hooking one of the following hooks: ‘the_excerpt’, ‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘wp_trim_excerpt’ or possibly removed the … Read more
The only custom form field that you seem to be printing out is a text input named “excerpt”. In your processor script you are checking for a $_POST var named “_ideas_quicknote”. Since it is not actually sent in the POST request, your processor will never see it. Please try the following: <?php print “\n” . … Read more