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WordPress › Support Tag: excerpt http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Tag: excerpt en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:13:50 +0000 justmebg on "Main Index not showing Read More correctly" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/335665#post-1293957 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:36:18 +0000 justmebg 1293957@http://wordpress.org/support/ I have a new Wordpress site and I am stumped by this one. I can't seem to get my Main Index page to observe the "Read More" tags I have in posts. I don't want to use the excerpt in place of the content tag because I only want this to happen with certain posts. It works fine in the archives, but not on the main page. I have been over and over the Loop code and can't figure out what the difference is, they look identical to me. help? CWitt22 on "Display excerpt for certain category, display 200 characters for rest" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/335278#post-1292653 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:42:54 +0000 CWitt22 1292653@http://wordpress.org/support/ First & foremost here is my existing code. I am showing 6 posts on the homepage with the first 200 characters of the post displaying, followed by a 'Read More' button. This is great for my posts with words, but not so good for my posts with video. My solution is to have category 14 for all videos, when a category 14 post is to be displayed I would like it display the excerpt rather than the 200 characters. <pre><code>?php query_posts('showposts=6'); if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>  <div class="post"> <h2> <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?> </a></h2> <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> on <?php the_time('m j, Y') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?> <div class="thumb"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php dp_attachment_image($post->ID, 'high', 'alt="' . $post->post_title . '"'); ?></a></div> <?php echo dp_clean($post->post_content, 200); ?> <a class="readmore" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read More</a> </div>  <?php endwhile; endif; ?></code></pre> My attempt to solve my code was this: <pre><code><?php query_posts('showposts=6'); if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>  <div class="post"> <h2> <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?> </a></h2> <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> on <?php the_time('m j, Y') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?> <div class="thumb"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php dp_attachment_image($post->ID, 'high', 'alt="' . $post->post_title . '"'); ?></a></div> <?php if ( is_category('14')) { the_excerpt(); } else { echo dp_clean($post->post_content, 200); } ?> <a class="readmore" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read More</a> </div>  <?php endwhile; endif; ?></code></pre> This didn't do it, but I think I'm missing something simple with my IF statement. Anyone have some ideas? amuralikumar on "Get excerpt as variable?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/232285#post-1292523 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:50:30 +0000 amuralikumar 1292523@http://wordpress.org/support/ Use get_the_excerpt() function. EXAMPLE :<?php $myExcerpt = get_the_excerpt(); if ($myExcerpt != '') { // Some string manipulation performed } echo $myExcerpt; // Outputs the processed value to the page ?> for more check <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_excerpt" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_excerpt</a> bugsyrocker on "functions.php error" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334770#post-1291148 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:45:46 +0000 bugsyrocker 1291148@http://wordpress.org/support/ I am trying to add a custom function to functions.php to trim the length of the exceprt. I pulled this code from: <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt">http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt</a> <pre><code>function new_excerpt_length($length) { return 20; } add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');</code></pre> However, when I insert it and reload my blog everything is blank, and it seems to break the functions.php code. I am new to this stuff, but it seems to be in the "add_filter" section. If I remove that line the error no longer occurs, but clearly the function doesn't work. Ideas? Thanks in advance. vinuel on "All posts excerpt except the first" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333826#post-1288162 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:56:05 +0000 vinuel 1288162@http://wordpress.org/support/ Thanks Michael! The code doesn’t work for me, but this Plug-In is exactly what I was looking for: <a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/homepage-excerpts-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailyblogtips.com/homepage-excerpts-wordpress-plugin/</a> MichaelH on "All posts excerpt except the first" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333826#post-1288085 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:24 +0000 MichaelH 1288085@http://wordpress.org/support/ Didn't test this but something similar to: <pre><code><?php if (have_posts()) { $count = 0; while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2> <?php $count++; if ($count <= 1) { the_content(); // display the full content of the first two posts only } else { the_excerpt; } // if ($count } // while (have_posts } // if (have_poss ?></code></pre> Also see <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+full+content+first+post+excerpt+for+rest" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+full+content+first+post+excerpt+for+rest</a> vinuel on "All posts excerpt except the first" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333826#post-1288051 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:24:42 +0000 vinuel 1288051@http://wordpress.org/support/ Hi there, I’ve searched the forum but I couldn’t find a solution for this: On my front page I want a list of my latest posts and it shall be shown as excerpt ( the_excerpt(); ). Only the first article shall be shown in whole ( the_content(); ). Isn’t there an easy if/else-way to realize this? I’ve found something like this: if (is_post()) { global $more; $more = 1; the_content(); } else the_excerpt(); but it just show me one article as excerpt. then2s on "Inline PHP for Wordpress 2.8.6 (Conditional)" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333634#post-1287394 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:04:04 +0000 then2s 1287394@http://wordpress.org/support/ UPDATE: I fixed the problem by the help of this post ( <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/281992?replies=3#post-1150732">http://wordpress.org/support/topic/281992?replies=3#post-1150732</a> ) OPEN: plugin folder - exec-php/include/runtime.php FIND: <pre><code>function filter_user_content($content) { global $post;</code></pre> ADD AFTER: <pre><code>if(strpos($content,'< ?php ')!==FALSE) { $content=str_replace('< ?php','<?php',$content); }</code></pre> HUGE THANKS TO mmorpglife!!!! <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/281992?replies=3#post-1150732">http://wordpress.org/support/topic/281992?replies=3#post-1150732</a> then2s on "Inline PHP for Wordpress 2.8.6 (Conditional)" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333634#post-1287380 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:41:22 +0000 then2s 1287380@http://wordpress.org/support/ WORDPRESS VERSION: 2.8.6 (I just did an upgrade from 2.7. everything was working GREAT with 2.7!!) INLINE PHP TO RUN (pasted on the first line of EVERY article): < ?php if (is_single()) { ?> < ?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/ads-single-top.php'); ?> < ?php } ?> (which basically is a conditional php code that includes adsense ONLY when viewing the article in single.php) The php works great when viewing the article in single.php.. but once it comes to index.php.. it doesnt work. On index.hph I am using "<?php the_excerpt() ?>" I tried searching for plugins that RUN PHP INLINE code.. and they work.. but only on single.php (like I said before) sickanlou on "show image in arcive" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333024#post-1285401 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:31:59 +0000 sickanlou 1285401@http://wordpress.org/support/ i want to show the whole post including image when looking att my posts in the arcive but im lost trying to change the excerpt in arcive.php.. Can you help? /Jessica esmi on "Activate automatic excerpts?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332309#post-1283207 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:10:20 +0000 esmi 1283207@http://wordpress.org/support/ Edit your theme's index.php file and replace <code><?php the_content();?></code> with <code><?php the_excerpt();?></code>. Ponkass on "Activate automatic excerpts?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332309#post-1283081 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:59 +0000 Ponkass 1283081@http://wordpress.org/support/ I can't find where to enable automatic excerpts! All I want to do is have the front page always display 55 character excerpts on each post with a "read more"-link at the end, WITHOUT having to use the MORE-TAG when doing a post! Please help. equalmark on "hiding lists from excerpts" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/331941#post-1282044 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:31:38 +0000 equalmark 1282044@http://wordpress.org/support/ Why not add a specific class around the excerpt and then set lists within that class to display none. Like this: <pre><code><div class="excerpt"> <?php the_excerpt(); ?> </div></code></pre> Then in your CSS try this: <pre><code>.excerpt ul, .excerpt ol { display: none; }</code></pre> That will prevent them from showing all together. To just hide the bullet point or the numbers use this: <pre><code>.excerpt ul, .excerpt ol { list-style-type: none; }</code></pre> mjfus on "How do I create Excerpt Previews" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/302813#post-1282028 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:07:10 +0000 mjfus 1282028@http://wordpress.org/support/ Can someone direct me on where to place 'the_content' tag? I'm trying to display the full text of a post on my homepage page using the code below: <?php global $more; // Declare global $more (before the loop). $more = 1; // Set (inside the loop) to display all content, including text below more. the_content(); ?> I don't know where to put this code, because I'm using a template that doesn't have <?php the_content(); ?> or <?php the_excerpt(); ?> in the index.php file. All that's in the index.php file is: <?php global $options; foreach ($options as $value) { if (get_settings( $value['id'] ) === FALSE) { $$value['id'] = $value['std']; } else { $$value['id'] = get_settings( $value['id'] ); } } if($swift_magzine=='magzine') include('layouts/magzine.php'); else include('layouts/blog.php'); ?>. kaneesha on "hiding lists from excerpts" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/331941#post-1281902 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:48:11 +0000 kaneesha 1281902@http://wordpress.org/support/ hello, how can i hide lists (li/ol/list_style_type) from excerpts in wordpress? thanks in advance csander on "Post Excerpts on a Page" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/331806#post-1281620 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:06:45 +0000 csander 1281620@http://wordpress.org/support/ Hey, thanks! That really helped me out! MichaelH on "Post Excerpts on a Page" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/331806#post-1281466 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:36:50 +0000 MichaelH 1281466@http://wordpress.org/support/ Look at the Page of Posts example in the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages">Pages article</a> and use the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags">template tag</a>, <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt">the_excerpt()</a>. Related: <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Template_Tags">Stepping Into Template Tags</a> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates">Stepping Into Templates</a> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy">Template Hierarchy</a> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Excerpt">Excerpt</a> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-category-posts/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-category-posts/</a> csander on "Post Excerpts on a Page" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/331806#post-1281455 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:22:23 +0000 csander 1281455@http://wordpress.org/support/ I'm trying to get my posts, or at least excerpts from my posts - to display on this page: <a href="http://www.wujimedia.com/wujimedia-blog/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wujimedia.com/wujimedia-blog/</a> Does anyone have a place for me to start? I would like to write a post and have it automatically display on that page. Is that possible? Thanks for any help you can provide. I appreciate it!! Craig reven on "Trackback excerpt not relevant" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/331750#post-1281195 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:01:22 +0000 reven 1281195@http://wordpress.org/support/ Hi, Recently I've noticed that trackback excerpts are not really relevant to the content of the page sending the ping, whether this be my own page or another page. For example, the link text usually is something like "Previous Post title | Next Post title" and the actual text something like "Post title". Not only is this not relevant to the post, but is also misleading. It seems that the content of the page is not really detected, it just starts getting text from the beginning of the page (the navigation links being the link text being an example of that). Has there been any recent changes to the trackback functions? I have a highly customized template, so I wanted to check if this is just happening to me or is it generalized. Also, any clue as to where I should start checking for an answer (which functions are involved) would be highly appreciated. Thanks. esmi on "can I show the full text of posts, but an excerpt of pages?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/331328#post-1280681 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:21:20 +0000 esmi 1280681@http://wordpress.org/support/ Try: <pre><code><?php if( $post->post_type != 'page' ) the_excerpt; else the_content; ?></code></pre> calciumwaste on "can I show the full text of posts, but an excerpt of pages?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/331328#post-1280559 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:21:57 +0000 calciumwaste 1280559@http://wordpress.org/support/ not sure why, but the full page still shows when I try that. On another of my blogs, I used some plugin to customize the excerpt. I think my best option is to use that and keep <?php the_excerpt; ?> esmi on "can I show the full text of posts, but an excerpt of pages?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/331328#post-1280079 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:03:06 +0000 esmi 1280079@http://wordpress.org/support/ Try using: <pre><code><?php if( is_page() ) the_excerpt; else the_content; ?></code></pre> calciumwaste on "can I show the full text of posts, but an excerpt of pages?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/331328#post-1279807 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:59:40 +0000 calciumwaste 1279807@http://wordpress.org/support/ I edited my theme so that the search results page would show the full text of posts (with images and active links), but now it also shows the full text of pages. My posts are all short and the images and links are essential, but some of my pages are quite long. Is it possible to show the full text post but an excerpt for pages? all I did was replace <?php the_excerpt; ?> with <?php the_content; ?> mixdmatt on "Search results - Remove <h1>" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/331001#post-1278907 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:48:02 +0000 mixdmatt 1278907@http://wordpress.org/support/ I have figured it out now. get_the_excerpt strips out HTML tags anyway so the Reg-ex was looking for a <h1> that wasn't there I used this in the end <pre><code><?php $little_excerpt = trim(substr(strip_tags(preg_replace("/(<h1>.*?<\/h1>|\[.*\])/m","",get_the_content())),0,200))."..."; ?></code></pre> Which also strips out any shortcodes :-) mixdmatt on "Search results - Remove <h1>" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/331001#post-1278680 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:48:02 +0000 mixdmatt 1278680@http://wordpress.org/support/ Hey all I've got a search results page on which I'm outputting the title of the post/page with an excerpt below. At present I'm using this function to trim the_excerpt down to 250 characters and follow with a '...' : <pre><code><?php $little_excerpt = trim(substr(strip_tags(get_the_excerpt()),0,250))."..."; ?> <?php echo $little_excerpt; ?></code></pre> This works, even if there is no excerpt specified for the post (WP generates it automatically am I right?) The problem I'm having is that all my post content entries start with <h1>Page title</h1> so when my excerpt is output I get something like this: Expertise In Action Our flexible, professional training has produced great results for diverse organisations Because my post content looks like this <code><h1>Expertise In Action</h1>Our flexible, professional training has produced great results for diverse organisations</code> As the h1 and page title are the same in most cases what I'm trying to do is strip out the <h1> and output everything past this i.e. Our flexible, professional training has produced great results for diverse organisations I've tried using PHP preg_replace such as this <code><?php $little_excerpt = trim(substr(strip_tags(preg_replace("<h1>.*?<\/h1>","",get_the_excerpt())),0,200))."..."; ?></code> But I get an Unknown modifier '.' error. Can anyone provide me with a function which can achieve what I'm after? Thanks in advance Matt bencharity on "Display post excerpts without images." http://wordpress.org/support/topic/329234#post-1277096 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:24:45 +0000 bencharity 1277096@http://wordpress.org/support/ Ok I have acheived my goal using this snip of code: <pre><code><?php query_posts('showposts=2&cat=7'); while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <div class="similarSingle"> <h5><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h5> <?php the_excerpt(); ?> </div>  <?php endwhile; ?></code></pre> However I'm not sure why this works when the other does not. I'd love to actually learn why instead of just using this blindly. Any wise words would be welcome! fifthhouse on "I want to exclude certain categories from having excerpt" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/330314#post-1276506 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:21:13 +0000 fifthhouse 1276506@http://wordpress.org/support/ I am using the excerpt tag to create excerpts, which works beautifully. But I have a bunch of categories with videos, and don't want the excerpt for posts in those categories. Is this possible? LukeStrosnider on "need help adding "read more" to excerpt" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/330286#post-1276409 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:14:25 +0000 LukeStrosnider 1276409@http://wordpress.org/support/ hey all ... so i read <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More">Customizing the Read More</a> in the Codex, but I can't figure this out ... i'm using this snippet of code on my Main Index to show my entire first post and then excerpts of the subsequent posts: <code><?php ($post == $posts[0] && !is_paged()) ? the_content('', 'FALSE') : the_excerpt() ; ?></code> i'd like for the subsequent posts to include a "Read more ..." link. i have this code (see below), but I can't figure out how to integrate it with the above code: <code><?php the_excerpt(); ?><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">[ more ... ]</a></code> Plain English: On my homepage, I'd like the first post to be shown in its entirety, and each subsequent post to be an excerpt with a "Read more ..." link. My site: <a href="http://www.touchingharmstheart.com">Touching Harms The Art</a> Thanks a million for any help / advice. rbeazley on "excerpt or post summaries" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/313738#post-1274864 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:29:12 +0000 rbeazley 1274864@http://wordpress.org/support/ Thank you! This REALLY helped me! ThemeLady on "the_excerpt_reloaded or Equivalent?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/329488#post-1274057 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:08:21 +0000 ThemeLady 1274057@http://wordpress.org/support/ I'm refreshing my knowledge of HTML and CSS, along with WordPress, after not doing so for a couple of years. I just searched for a plugin I'd previously used, but it's not coming up: the_excerpt_reloaded. I did see a plugin that says it's used "in conjunction" with the_excerpt_reloaded, but didn't see the_excerpt_reloaded itself. Are any of the other excerpt plugins similar? There were several, and I'm not sure which is right for me. Thanks!