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1. SpankMarvin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi all

   I thought this would be a relatively simple thing to achieve, but guess I'm missing something.

   I am setting up a blog in which, for listings, I want a manual excerpt to appear. No issues there, except that at the moment, if there is no excerpt put in, WordPress makes one automatically out of the content. I have the following code in the loop:

   <?php $blog_ex = get_the_excerpt();
   if( $blog_ex != '' ){
   	the_excerpt();
   } else {
   	the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentyten' ) );
   } ?>

   My guess is that get_the_excerpt is already returning something automatically so that my variable is never == ''... so would filtering be the way to go?

   Any advice much appreciated

   John

2. SpankMarvin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I figured this out! Instead of using the get_the_excerpt function, I used the post object to gauge whether a manual excerpt was added.

   $blog_ex = get_the_excerpt();

   becomes

   $blog_ex = $post->post_excerpt;

   and it now functions as required.

   J

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