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; ?>
First, please make sure you understand the difference between the_excerpt and the_content. You are asking about the_excerpt but I suspect that you might actually mean the_content. That said… You can filter the the_excerpt function with a filter of the same name. add_filter( ‘the_excerpt’, function ($excerpt) { return substr($excerpt,0,strpos($excerpt,’.’)+1); } );
You can make WordPress execute your shortcode in the excerpt by hooking into get_the_excerpt filter and overwriting the default wp_trim_excerpt function, which is responsible of stripping the shortcode tags from the excerpt as pointed by Chip: add_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘do_my_shortcode_in_excerpt’); function do_my_shortcode_in_excerpt($excerpt) { return do_shortcode(wp_trim_words(get_the_content(), 55)); } This is applied to both the_excerpt() and get_the_excerpt() outputs. If … Read more
Sorry for reading wrong your question @siouxfan45! here is the right answer: just a little improvement in your code and you can count words! just change these two lines: jQuery(“#excerpt_counter”).val(jQuery(“#excerpt”).val().length); to this: jQuery(“#excerpt_counter”).val(jQuery(“#excerpt”).val().split(/\S\b[\s,\.\’-:;]*/).length – 1); Words with single quote like “don’t”, “it’s”, “I’d”, “won’t”…will count as two! If you want them to count as a … Read more
How filters work Filters are simply a point where you can take some value, that is set (for something) in core (for e.g. the the_excerpt() function), in open to modifications. So… $some_var = apply_filters( ‘change_this_var’, 50 ); …just says: »Some var« is set to 50, but when you add a filter callback to change_this_var, then … Read more
I always have the same problem with post excerpt, post content. There’re various hooks and functions for this purpose, like @kaiser pointed out. But sometimes they don’t do exactly what I want. Here’s my solution, I write my own function that take the post content, and truncate it into specified number of words: function wpse69204_excerpt( … Read more
This is one of the reasons why HTML markup is removed from excerpts in the first place, to prevent such issues like this from occurring however, where there’s a will, there’s a way… You can, through using regular expression, close the open tags applicable to the excerpt only and you might want to take a … Read more
I actually never got to add this section to my answer you are referring to. To remove the read more link from the excerpt is quite easy, you just need to compare $count with $excerpt_length. $count will always be between 0 and the value assigned to $excerpt_length. So what we want to do here is … Read more
You haven’t added the second filter, at least not in the code posted. If used, that filter will not print ellipses. // Changing excerpt more function new_excerpt_more($more) { global $post; remove_filter(‘excerpt_more’, ‘new_excerpt_more’); return ‘ <a class=”read_more” href=”‘. get_permalink($post->ID) . ‘”>’ . ‘read more’ . ‘</a>’; } add_filter(‘excerpt_more’,’new_excerpt_more’); Notice the couple of changes I made to … Read more
I’m assuming you are using WordPress’ Embeds feature. Generally speaking wp_embed_defaults() gives you the information you need. A look at the source discloses the possibilities you have: 2017 /** 2018 * Create default array of embed parameters. 2019 * 2020 * The width defaults to the content width as specified by the theme. If the … Read more