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1. Spencer Hill
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Heya, I feel like this is a really basic question and that I'm overlooking documentation but I can't find anything on the topic. I'm writing a search.php page and I need to limit the text to a certain number of characters and show a "..." then a read more link. Can anyone help me out? Thanks!
   

   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   
   		<h1>Search Results</h1>
   
   		<div class="search-form"><?php get_search_form(); ?></div>
   
   		<div class="navigation">
   			<div class="alignleft">next<?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
   			<div class="alignright">previ<?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
   		</div>
   
   		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
   			<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
   
   			<?php echo substr($post->post_content, 0, 200); ?>
   
   			<hr />
   
   		<?php endwhile; ?>
   
   		<div class="navigation">
   			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
   			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
   		</div>
   
   	<?php else : ?>
   
   		<h2 class="center">No posts found. Try a different search?</h2>
   		<?php get_search_form(); ?>
   
   	<?php endif; ?>

2. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Are you using a really old theme? Don't often see folks going after post_content directly like that these days.

   Try replacing
   <?php echo substr($post->post_content, 0, 200); ?>

   with

   <?php the_excerpt() ?>

   See also:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt

   If you want to customize the excerpt beyond what you get from the_excerpt() check out the plugins section and look for one of the "excerpts" customization plugins.

3. Spencer Hill
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Oh that's awesome, I thought that pulled from the excerpt panel not just an excerpt of the actual content. Thanks!

   PS Nope, this is one I'm writing but I found that snippet on an old forum post.

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