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1. ajaskey
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I use the_excerpt() to create the description of individual posts.

   <?php if (is_single()) {
   echo (' <meta name="description" content="');
   the_excerpt();
   echo (' ">');
   }
   elseif (is_page())
   ...
   ...

   Each description is enclosed in <p>...</p>. I want to remove this. Is there a function to send the output of the_excerpt through to remove html tags?

   Example of output:

   <meta name="description" content="<p>The Square of 90 is about to complete off the March low with price up over 40%.</p>

   Thanks.
   Andy

2. cais
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Admittedly my PHP skills are not the greatest but consider the code changes of using the PHP substr and strlen functions:

   <?php if (is_single()) {
   echo (' <meta name="description" content="');
   substr(the_excerpt(),4,(strlen(the_excerpt)-4));
   echo (' ">');
   }
   elseif (is_page())

   Links to the PHP manual for reference, please validate code.
   http://ca.php.net/substr
   http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php

3. ajaskey
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   cais - Thanks for the suggestion. I found that "the_excerpt_rss()" call does exactly what I want.

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