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1. wholesalepride
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Evermore and post teaser work fine until trying to change the settings. With both, when saving the changes you get a php error that is not helpful. Anyone know of a fix, or replacement plugin?

2. Len
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm not familiar with those plugins but if you're simply wanting to show snippets of your post on the front page you don't need a plugin. Use the template tag the_excerpt() instead of the_content()

   Additionally, WordPress by default will limit excerpts to 55 characters when using the_excerpt(). You can change that by adding this to your theme's functions.php file,

   /* custom trim excerpt lenghts */
   remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
   add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'custom_trim_excerpt');
   
   function custom_trim_excerpt($text) { // Fakes an excerpt if needed
   global $post;
   if ( '' == $text ) {
   $text = get_the_content('');
   $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
   $text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
   $text = strip_tags($text);
   $excerpt_length = X;
   $words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
   if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
   array_pop($words);
   array_push($words, '...');
   $text = implode(' ', $words);
   }
   }
   return $text;
   }

   Just adjust the line $excerpt_length = X; to whatever you want.

3. Bennett McElwee
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Evermore has just been updated - the problem should now be fixed.

4. gofree
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yes, look great now.

   The problem we are using such plugin is because we don't want to mess up. @bennettmcelwee, great if this plugin also includes some functions like strip out images and video, too.

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