I would encourage you to consider using post formats. You can see my answer to a similar question about altering the “Read More” text, but it would apply similarly to you. For the video portion, you might want to create a custom field to hold the video URL, but otherwise, I imagine this would be … Read more
How about using condition to change the readmore links. Here is an sample code which returns a different read more text based upon the category of post. You should read the official codex page to know more about other conditional tags you can use in wordpress. Usage – put this code into your theme’s functions.php … Read more
This is caused by the line break between the first image in the post and the body content of the post. Just delete the one line of space between the two and it will working fine.
Not entirely sure it is supposed to be used like this, but by analogue with the_content try this: add_filter(‘the_excerpt’, array($wp_embed, ‘autoembed’), 9);
WordPress uses the filter wp_trim_excerpt to strip the tags. You can remove the filter and create your own which will allow the links: <?php function new_wp_trim_excerpt($text) { $raw_excerpt = $text; if ( ” == $text ) { $text = get_the_content(”); $text = strip_shortcodes( $text ); $text = apply_filters(‘the_content’, $text); $text = str_replace(‘]]>’, ‘]]>’, $text); $text … Read more
The post_excerpt value is empty because you have no explicit excerpts for your posts. While the_excerpt() does generate an excerpt from the posts content if the post excerpt is empty, the function wp_get_recent_posts(), which is basically a wrapper for get_posts(), doesn’t.
Perhaps a conditional statement like the following will work. The logic is: “If the post has an explicit excerpt, add a read more link. Otherwise, use default excerpt behavior.” if($post->post_excerpt) { the_excerpt(); echo ‘<a href=”‘.get_permalink().'”>Read More</a>’; } else { the_excerpt(); } You can use this in combination with Gavin’s suggestion to unify the appearance of … Read more
Regenerate auto excerpts after updating many posts
Here is a function that keeps HTML tags in tact, adds a “Read More” link at the end of the excerpt and trims the excerpt after the first paragraph. if ( ! function_exists( ‘wpse0001_custom_wp_trim_excerpt’ ) ) : function wpse0001_custom_wp_trim_excerpt($wpse0001_excerpt) { global $post; $raw_excerpt = $wpse0001_excerpt; if ( ” == $wpse0001_excerpt ) { $wpse0001_excerpt = get_the_content(”); … Read more
Firstly, it should be post_excerpt. Secondly, this just stores the manually added excerpt, so it returns empty if you don’t have one. Thirdly, you could setup_postdata: <?php $pagechildren = get_pages( array( ‘child_of’ => $post->ID ) ); ?> <?php foreach ( $pagechildren as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?> // code <?php endforeach; wp_reset_postdata(); ?> … Read more