Just add the filter where you need it. Define the filter callback in functions.php but don’t add the filter… // Changing excerpt more function new_excerpt_more($post) { return ‘ <a class=”read_more” href=”‘. get_permalink($post->ID) . ‘”>’ . ‘read more’ . ‘</a>’; } In your template file just before you need the custom more link: add_filter(‘excerpt_more’, ‘new_excerpt_more’); And … Read more
If you’re using the Twenty Eleven theme I think you need to remove that theme’s filter before you can define your own: remove_filter( ‘excerpt_more’, ‘twentyeleven_auto_excerpt_more’ ); edit building from t-p try this: add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘my_child_theme_setup’ ); function my_child_theme_setup() { remove_filter( ‘excerpt_more’, ‘twentyten_auto_excerpt_more’ ); } In case you are using twentyeleven, use “twentyeleven_auto_excerpt_more” instead of ‘twentyten_auto_excerpt_more’
You need to call remove_post_type_support() in your functions.php like that: /** * Remove unwanted features. */ add_action(‘init’, ‘my_theme_remove_post_type_support’); function my_theme_remove_post_type_support() { remove_post_type_support(‘post’, ‘excerpt’); }
The reason is the following check in the wp_trim_words() function: if ( count( $words_array ) > $num_words ) { array_pop( $words_array ); $text = implode( $sep, $words_array ); $text = $text . $more; } else { $text = implode( $sep, $words_array ); } You can therefore try the following: add_filter( ‘wp_trim_words’, function( $text, $num_words, $more … Read more
Excerpts can be automatically generated in which case you have some control over them or manually generated in which case there is very little control available, and the wordpress way is that they may have any type of content. if you need something more restrictive you will need to create your own “meta box” for … Read more
The function you want is wp_trim_words(), example: function themeTemplate_trim_excerpt( $content ) { $more=”…”; //where $more is optional return wp_trim_words($content, 52, $more); } remove_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘wp_trim_excerpt’); add_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘template_trim_excerpt’);
The twentyfourteen index page calls get_template_part( ‘content’, get_post_format() ); inside the loop. So the content of the loop resides in template files with the name content-{$post_format}.php. All posts that does not have a post format uses content.php to display the post data If you look at content.php, these lines are where the content is retrieved … Read more
The excerpt stips all html tags, a feature that frustrates many. I have written a custom excerpt that stops the excerpt from stipping any html tags. It also breaks the excerpt after the sentence after the set amount of words. If you need to cut the excerpt at exact words, you will just need to … Read more
Set the filter dynamically based on the page you are loading. If category archive pages have a 100 word excerpt, but posts have a 10 word excerpt, and everything else uses the default: function my_custom_excerpt_length( $orig ) { if( is_category() ) { return 100; } elseif( is_single() ) { return 10; } return $orig; } … Read more
You can use has_excerpt() for this, which checks whether the post has a manually set excerpt. The sample code below uses this function: <?php if ( has_excerpt() ) : // Only show custom excerpts not autoexcerpts ?> <span class=”entry-subtitle”><?php echo get_the_excerpt(); ?></span> <?php endif; ?>