Take a look on my answer here: Best Collection of Code for your functions.php file If I understood your question correctly, it does what you are looking for. Place this in functions.php: function excerpt($num) { $limit = $num+1; $excerpt = explode(‘ ‘, get_the_excerpt(), $limit); array_pop($excerpt); $excerpt = implode(” “,$excerpt).”… (<a href=”” .get_permalink($post->ID) .” “>Read more</a>)”; … Read more
There is no filter that would allow you to set allowable tags not to be removed by the_excerpt(). Arguably a shortcoming of the core. Anyhow, the actual excerpt generation does not happen in that template tag but entirely elsewhere: Excerpts are generated by the function wp_trim_excerpt(), inside of which the excerpt filters you are already … Read more
What you’re trying to do with the video is exactly what Post Formats were created to handle. Add this to functions: add_theme_support( ‘post-formats’, array( ‘video’ ) ); And then this to handle your Read More link: if( !has_post_format( ‘video’ ) ) { echo ‘<a href=”‘ . get_permalink() . ‘”>Read More…</a>’; } else { echo ‘<a … Read more
On the post edit page, if you fill Excerpt box with any text, the_excerpt() function doesn’t add read more link or … at the end of the short description at frontend. Read more link is only included if Excerpt is set empty. This is not a bug, it’s a default behavior. The solution is to … Read more
Turns out the answer was in wp_trim_excerpt(). It’s defined in wp-includes/functions.php:1879: /** * Generates an excerpt from the content, if needed. * * The excerpt word amount will be 55 words and if the amount is greater than * that, then the string ‘ […]’ will be appended to the excerpt. If the string * … Read more
add these lines in function.php file function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) { return 20; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘custom_excerpt_length’, 999 );
The codex is your friend and should be your first stop 🙂 The […] is added by the_excerpt(). There is a filter supplied called the excerpt_more filter that is specifically included to customize the read more text after the excerpt To remove the […] after the excerpt text, you can do the following function new_excerpt_more( … Read more
Since WP 3.3.0, wp_trim_words() is helpful if you’re able to get the content that you want to generate an excerpt for. Hope that’s helpful to someone and it saves creating your own word counting function. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_trim_words