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1. xsreality
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   Hello,

   I am using the gallery shortcode CAPTION and it displays fine when a post is called through the_content() function. But the shortcode is displayed as it is when the post is called through the_excerpt() function. Any way to change that?

   Thanks,
   Abhinav

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   Not likely. Read about the_excerpt in the Codex: no code or html tags is executed in them.

3. Michael Fields
   Theme Wrangler
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   xsreality,
   in your loop, you could try the following code:

   <?php
   print apply_filters( 'the_content', $post->the_excerpt );
   ?>

   Just a quick thought - not really tested, but I remember doing something similar to this in the past. I should also state that it is best practice to leave excerpts code free - like moshu suggested. Excerpts are used to build the data that gets inserted into you rss files and I have a seen a few plugins reek havoc on them.

   Good luck

4. xsreality
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   Thanx moshu and mfields... I have followed your advice and decided against using shortcodes at all. Somehow I find them unnecessarily cumbersome. There are other standard ways to achieve the same thing and I think I will stick to that! :)

5. alexleonard
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   It can be done!

   Add this to your functions.php file in your template. I've just tested it out and it works fine :)

   add_filter('the_excerpt', 'do_shortcode');

6. adaptiman
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   @alexleonard

   Which functions.php file? The one attached to the theme?

7. timothyiv
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   add_filter('the_excerpt', 'do_shortcode');

   in function.php Where to add it?

8. Michael Fields
   Theme Wrangler
   Posted 4 years ago #
   

   anywhere should work

9. Drew Baker
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   I'd like to remove the shortcodes from the_excerpt too. But I can't get it to work. Is my functions.php correct?

   <?php
   if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
   register_sidebar(array('name'=>'Main Sidebar',
           'before_widget' => '<li><div id="%1$s" class="%2$s">',
           'after_widget' => '</div></li>',
           'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
           'after_title' => '</h2>',
   		));
   register_sidebar(array('name'=>'Comments Sidebar',
           'before_widget' => '<li><div id="%1$s" class="%2$s">',
           'after_widget' => '</div></li>',
           'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
           'after_title' => '</h2>',
   		));
   register_sidebar(array('name'=>'Footer Sidebar',
           'before_widget' => '<li><div id="%1$s" class="%2$s">',
           'after_widget' => '</div></li>',
           'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
           'after_title' => '</h2>',
   		));
   add_filter('the_excerpt', 'do_shortcode');
   ?>

   Thanks for the help!

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