Hello, every one, I am working on this project, and I was asked to add in the latest post "Feature News" a brief short of the recent article published in the WP website. Before the whole article would show up, but now I figured out how to give only a short version of it. But never the less is too little, I would like see close to 200 words before the article cuts, then tells you to go to the next page. But I do not know how to. Probably there is an easy way, I tried the exerpt, but still is too little.
I am pretty sure that there is a way to have it automatically done, like: http://www.eventindustrynews.co.uk/ the section called "Feature News"
See code:
<?php get_header(); ?>
<!-- BEGIN content -->
<div id="content">
<?php if (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<!-- begin latest -->
<div class="latest">
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php dp_attachment_image(0, 'thumbnail', 'alt="Latest News"'); ?></a>
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<div class="noimage"><?php the_content('Read More'); ?></div>
<?php ob_start(); the_excerpt(); echo dp_clean(ob_get_clean(), 550); ?>...
<a class="readmore" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read full story »</a>
<div class="break"></div></div>
<!-- end latest -->
<?php endif; ?>
<?php
if (have_posts()) : $side = 'r';
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
$arc_year = get_the_time('Y');
$arc_month = get_the_time('m');
$arc_day = get_the_time('d');
$side = ($side=='r') ? 'l' : 'r';
?>
<div class="<?php echo $side; ?>">
<!-- begin post -->
<div class="post">
<h2><?php the_category(', '); ?></h2>
<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<?php dp_attachment_image(0, 'thumbnail', 'alt="' . $post->post_title . '"'); ?>
<?php ob_start(); the_excerpt(); echo dp_clean(ob_get_clean(), 350); ?>...
<div class="break"></div>
<a class="readmore" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read full story »</a>
</div>
<!-- end post -->
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<div class="break"></div>
<!-- begin post navigation -->
<div class="postnav">
<?php if(function_exists('wp_page_numbers')) { wp_page_numbers(); } ?>
</div>
<!-- end post navigation -->
<?php else : ?>
<div class="notfound">
<h2>Not Found</h2>
Sorry, but you are looking for something that is not here.
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<!-- END content -->
<?php get_sidebar(); get_footer(); ?>The code piece I added was
<?php ob_start(); the_excerpt(); echo dp_clean(ob_get_clean(), 350); ?>...Please help me.
