Change excerpt starting point (the_excerpt offset?)

  • Borbotron

    (@computacion)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    Been going around this for a few hours without luck.
    Is there a way to offset the starting word or character when you get the_excerpt?

    I’m having an issue with a plugin that inserts social sharing references at the start of every post i.e. “Tweet Share Email” (see here) and I’d like to strip it from the excerpt.

    The length of the added text is always the same so either stripping the first word or the first ‘n’ characters from the beginning would work.

    I’ve found many posts about limiting the excerpt at it’s end but none for doing it at it’s beginning so any clue would be appreciated, thanks!

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  • vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    You could create a filter on the_excerpt and remove the text.

    This filter assumes that a leading p tag precedes the text you want to strip:

    // Filter to strip content from front of excerpt
function mm_strip_excerpt($excerpt) {
   $text_to_strip = 'product'; // The text to strip
   $excerpt = preg_replace("/^<p>$text_to_strip/",'<p>',$excerpt);
   return $excerpt;
}
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'mm_strip_excerpt');
    Thread Starter Borbotron

    (@computacion)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Hey, I’ve just seen this suggestion.

    I’ve tried it and some variants but without luck, thanks anyway!

    Thread Starter Borbotron

    (@computacion)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    OK, I found one that works!

    <?php
    $myExcerpt = get_the_excerpt();
    $tags = array(“”);
    $myExcerpt = str_replace($tags, “”, $myExcerpt);
    echo $myExcerpt;
    ?>

    Hope it helps someone else too, cheers!

    clegg100

    (@clegg100)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Hi Computacion

    I also need to change the excerpt starting point and it looks like you’ve found a way to do it. Could you please let me know in which specific file and where exactly I would use the above code. I’m new to PHP.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter Borbotron

    (@computacion)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Hi clegg100,

    What that code does is to remove a string of text from the_excerpt, it doesn’t change the starting point (which was my original question, I know), sorry!

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