http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: Removing <p> from the_excerpt en Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:44:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/276430#post-1102553 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:58:33 +0000 ajaskey 1102553@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>cais - Thanks for the suggestion. I found that "the_excerpt_rss()" call does exactly what I want. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/276430#post-1092024 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:54:16 +0000 cais 1092024@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Admittedly my PHP skills are not the greatest but consider the <em>code</em> changes of using the PHP <strong>substr</strong> and <strong>strlen</strong> functions:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php if (is_single()) { echo (&#39; &lt;meta name=&quot;description&quot; content=&quot;&#39;); substr(the_excerpt(),4,(strlen(the_excerpt)-4)); echo (&#39; &quot;&gt;&#39;); } elseif (is_page())</code></pre> <p>Links to the PHP manual for reference, please validate code.<br /> <a href="http://ca.php.net/substr" rel="nofollow">http://ca.php.net/substr</a><br /> <a href="http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php" rel="nofollow">http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/276430#post-1091631 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:39:57 +0000 ajaskey 1091631@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I use the_excerpt() to create the description of individual posts. </p> <p>&lt;?php if (is_single()) {<br /> echo (' &lt;meta name="description" content="');<br /> the_excerpt();<br /> echo (' "&gt;');<br /> }<br /> elseif (is_page())<br /> ...<br /> ...</p> <p>Each description is enclosed in &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;. I want to remove this. Is there a function to send the output of the_excerpt through to remove html tags?</p> <p>Example of output:</p> <p>&lt;meta name="description" content="&lt;p&gt;The Square of 90 is about to complete off the March low with price up over 40%.&lt;/p&gt;</p> <p>Thanks.<br /> Andy </p>