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excerpt box not visible

Do you have the excerpt field enabled in screen options? Screen options is in the top right-hand corner the screen, next to the help button (under the logout link).

Limit the size of the post excerpt

Try to go in a completely different way about that and this code to your functions.php // Variable excerpt length. function dynamic_excerpt($length) { // Variable excerpt length. Length is set in characters global $post; $text = $post->post_excerpt; if ( ” == $text ) { $text = get_the_content(”); $text = apply_filters(‘the_content’, $text); $text = str_replace(‘]]>’, ‘]]>’, … Read more

excerpt display same text

You need to be using setup_postdata($post); as in all of the examples for get_posts. You need: $myposts = get_posts(‘numberposts=5’); foreach($myposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); // the rest of your function

the_excerpt not displaying

You need to be using setup_postdata foreach($all_posts as $post): setup_postdata($post); // the rest of your loop If you look at the docs for get_posts you will see that in all of the examples.

How to get excerpt of the recent posts

You can use the wp_trim_excerpt() to get the excerpt of the content. You can use it inside your loop to get the excerpt of each post the string provided to a maximum of 55 words if it is more then a […] will be added to the end of the string. <?php $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts(array(‘post_type’=>’jokes’)); … Read more

The excerpt doesn’t add Read more

The problem is the difference between the teaser and excerpt which is mistaken one for another in many case. The excerpt_more filter that you are using will change the teaser more text, not the excerpt. The right filter for this is the get_the_excerpt. But it doesn’t change the […] of the excerpt, it gives you … Read more

How to properly show the Excerpt only if it exists?

This works. You probably just had a syntax error. function content( $limit ) { global $post; if( has_excerpt() ){ $content = the_excerpt(); } else { $content = explode( ‘ ‘, get_the_content(), $limit ); if ( count($content) >= $limit ) { array_pop( $content ); $content = implode( ” “, $content ); $content = wp_strip_all_tags( $content, true … Read more

How to get only manual excerpts?

Answering my own question. Solved with an if else statement using has_excerpt. if( has_excerpt ( $_post, ID ) ) { $author = sprintf( ‘<a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/224893/%1$s”>Apply</a>’, esc_attr( get_the_excerpt( $_post ) ) ); } else { $author=””; } It only makes sense, really.

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