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1. cswake
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Asking for an option to automatically generate an excerpt from Posts or to use the existing excerpt and format it the same way as the auto-generated excerpt.

   ie. If a post has no excerpt, then auto-generate 13 word excerpt. If a post has an excerpt, then just show the first 13 words of the existing excerpt.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/

2. archon810
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have a similar request, I think - is it possible to detect the manual excerpts (such as ones using <!--more--> from http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More) and still output whatever the Read More option outputs? Otherwise, for content with custom excerpts, we end up without the Read More link at all.

   Thank you.

3. alpha_llama
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I wanted all my 'teasers' to look the same on my front page whether the posts have <!--more--> tags, custom excerpts, or none at all. So I wrote the following code:

   <?php
   /* Continue Reading Stuff */
   
   function my_continue_reading_link() {
     return ' Read the rest of this entry »';
   }
   
   function my_auto_excerpt_more( $more ) {
     return ' . . .' . my_continue_reading_link();
   }
   
   function my_custom_excerpt_more( $excerpt ) {
     if ( has_excerpt() && ! is_attachment() ) {
       $excerpt .= my_continue_reading_link();
     }
     return $excerpt;
   }
   
   function my_the_excerpt() {
     if( has_excerpt() ) {
       // Post has a custom excerpt
       return get_the_excerpt();
     } else {
       if( strpos( get_the_content(),"class=\"more-link\"" ) ){
         // Post has <!--more--> link
         return the_content( my_continue_reading_link() );
       } else {
         // Post does not have <!--more--> link
         return get_the_excerpt();
       }
     }
   }
   
   // Init Filters to make it all work
   function read_more_filters() {
     add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'my_auto_excerpt_more' );
     add_filter('get_the_excerpt','my_custom_excerpt_more');
     add_filter('the_excerpt','my_the_excerpt');
   }
   add_action('after_setup_theme','read_more_filters');
   
   

4. alpha_llama
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   So just to be clear, they all look like this now:

   Read the rest of this entry »

   with thre periods on the end of the auto-generated (eg; no custom excerpt or more tag posts.)

   Hope that helps.

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