how can i show specific excerpt on a page?

  • Resolved steve-from-breathe4u

    (@steve-from-breathe4u)


    14 years, 3 months ago

    hi there,
    does anyone have any idea how i can display a specific excerpt on my home page using the post id? the following code works but shows the whole post

    <?php
$post_id = 43; // substitute the actual post ID for "2"
$my_post = get_post($post_id);
echo "<h3>$my_post->post_title</h3>";
echo "<p>$my_post->post_content</p>";
?>

    i’d really appreciate any help thanks 🙂

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  • Edward Caissie

    (@cais)

    14 years, 3 months ago

    Have a look at this page in the codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post

    I believe you can simply change:

    echo "<p>$my_post->post_content</p>";

    … to:

    echo "<p>$my_post->post_excerpt</p>";

    Thread Starter steve-from-breathe4u

    (@steve-from-breathe4u)

    14 years, 3 months ago

    thanks for your help, but unfortunately this doesn’t seem to work 🙁

    Edward Caissie

    (@cais)

    14 years, 3 months ago

    I just tested your code with my suggested change and it worked fine on my test server … in what fashion is it not working for you?

    Perhaps there are underlying issues? Possibly a link to your blog and the active theme would be helpful …

    Thread Starter steve-from-breathe4u

    (@steve-from-breathe4u)

    14 years, 3 months ago

    hi cais,

    thanks for all your help. the website i’m working on is for a client parts of the site are hidden as its under construction but a direct link is http://www.4sportsgolf.com/home/ (hopefully this will work) the theme is one i’m developing myself. (its my first attempt) so i may have made some mistakes (in fact i’m wondering if i need to put any code in the functions for this to work). the title and content code works fine but when i replace the content code with the excerpt code i get a title and an empty p tag. once again thanks for all your help and patience.

    Thread Starter steve-from-breathe4u

    (@steve-from-breathe4u)

    14 years, 3 months ago

    hi cais,

    thanks for your help but i just solved i,t the excerpt was from a page not a post and i just installed a plugin that has solved the problem (PJW page excerpt).

    cheers
    steve

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