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1. billa1
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I want to limit the length of the_content to display on homepay. I can limit using the get_the_content function, but the problem is that get_the_content does not get the content with formatting (eg. does not include image or paragraph tag etc).
   Please help me with it.

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 4 months ago #

   use the 'more-tag' when writing or editng your posts.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More

   also, you could apply the 'the_content' filter on the truncated get_the_content()

   example:
   <?php echo appply_filters('the_content', substr(get_the_content(), 0, 200) ); ?>

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference

3. Jan Dembowski
   Volunteer Mod. & Brute Squad
   Posted 4 months ago #

   You're close to solving it! After you get_the_content() and play with the data, do apply_filters() like so.

   $content = get_the_content();
   $content = apply_filters('the_content', $content );

   Then the shortcodes and formatting will be applied.

   Edit: 4 minutes, I'm getting slower. Darn you Sweeper, Daaarrrnnnn yooouuu! :)

4. Sunny Johal
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Just do the following to return the content to a variable where you can manipulate it
   

   <?php
   $content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);
   $content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);
   ?>

   this will produce the same output that the_content() returns. You can then limit the length using your method without using the 'more-tag'. Hope this helps.

   Sunny

5. billa1
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   @alchymyth and Jan Dembowski Thanks for the quick replies :) Solves my problem.

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