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1. Devstorm
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Hi, is there some code/plugin which creates excerpts or more <more-tag>s (and auto-summaries) from Posts?
   I have thousands of Posts to import from old CMS, so doing this manually is not possible. I think this is a fairly common task, so I hope there's already some plugin/hack available.

2. Joseph G.
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   You can do this by calling the_except() function. It must be called inside the wordpress loop.

   If you want to automatically append a string such as "Read more..." for each excerpt you have called, it can be achieved by using add_filter function in wordpress.

   Ex.

   <?php
       function addReadMoreToExcept(){
           global $post;
           $post_excerpt = get_the_excerpt( $post->ID );
           $readMore_permalink = get_the_permalink( $post->ID );
           $readMore_format = "[Read More...]";
           $readMore = sprintf( "%s %s", $post_excerpt,$readMore_permalink, $readMore_format  )
           return $readMore;
       }
       add_action('the_except', 'addReadMoreToExcerpt');
   
      /** Code not tested **/
   ?>
   

   Something like that.

   Thanks

3. Devstorm
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Hi Joseph,

   thank you for your answer. I implemented it this way now.

   Best Wishes
   Stefan

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