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1. mildlyhotpeppers
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Does anyone know how I might get rid of breaks/newlines from the_excerpt? I want to configure a digg badge for each of my posts, and the code looks like this:

   <script type="text/javascript">
   digg_url = '<?php the_permalink(); ?>';
   digg_title = '<?php the_title(); ?>';
   digg_bodytext = '<?php the_excerpt(); ?>';
   </script>
   <script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

   The only problem, however, is that the_excerpt for some posts returns a string with a new line. Thus, the javascript thinks that there is an error, an unterminated string literal. I tried digg_bodytext = '<?php trim(the_excerpt()); ?>'; but that didn't work.

   Any suggestions? (And sorry if this is the wrong section...I wasn't sure if it was a "hack" or something "advanced" - it's not really any of them.)

2. sudar
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Use

   digg_bodytext = '<?php echo trim(get_the_excerpt()); ?>';

   Let me know if it works

3. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'd try something more rigorous than just trim() here:

   digg_bodytext = '<?php echo trim(preg_replace('/\s/', ' ', get_the_excerpt())); ?>';

4. mores
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Let me bring this thread back up to the surface :)

   Kafkaesqui's solution helped me a lot, since I wanted to show the excerpt, if there is one, and the full content if there is no excerpt.

   Which looks like
   

   <?php if (trim(preg_replace('/\s/', ' ', get_the_excerpt()))){the_excerpt('more »');} else {the_content('more »');} ?>

   Now, my problem is that if I have a post that has an excerpt, and then remove the excerpt, I do not get the full version (the_content), but some other sort of abbreviated content.

   EDIT: Whoa, hold your horses, it now suddenly does work. No idea what I did, maybe I had to change the content text of the post too ...

5. marcvdwurff
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   shouldn't it be \n? \s leaves me with questionmarks

6. nathanrice
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   how about using the_excerpt_rss with the trip and preg_replace methods above?
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt_rss

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