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1. bencharity
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   At the end of each of my pages I display the two latest posts (with a short excerpt) as part of my page footer.

   However the images in my posts are screwing it up. Is there a way to call the excerpt excluding the images of a post? It seems as though this should be a simple command, but I can't seem to find any documentation.

   My code:

   <div id="latestBlog">
   	<?php $temp_query = $wp_query; ?>
   
   <?php
   query_posts("cat=7,10,8&showposts=2");
   
   global $more;
   // set $more to 0 in order to only get the first part of the post
   $more = 0;
   ?>
   
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
     <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
   
     <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
   
    <div class="entry">
      <?php the_content('<span class="moretext">[continue reading...]</span>'); ?>
    </div>
   	</div>
   <?php endwhile; ?>
   
   </div>  <!-- end #latestBlog -->

   You can see how it is screwing up the bottom of my page here: http://benjamincharity.com/freelance/process/

   Thanks in advance!
   Benjamin

2. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Might want to look at the Excerpt article.

3. bencharity
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Thanks Michael,

   I've read this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt

   And this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/apply_filters

   But neither say anything about not including images.

   Any ideas?

4. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Someone else might need to jump in here, cause I thought strip_tags caused img tags to be removed from the auto excerpt...

5. bencharity
   Member
   Posted 1 week ago #

   Ok I have acheived my goal using this snip of 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>  <!-- end .similarSingle -->
   
   <?php endwhile; ?>

   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!

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