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1. buskerdog
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm using the excerpt for something else and in my archive.php I'd like to show just the first, say, 100 characters of my content. How can I do this?

2. kkarpieszuk
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   $content = get_the_content();
   echo substr($content, 0, 100);

   it should works
   constructed from information from http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content and http://pl.php.net/manual/pl/function.substr.php

3. buskerdog
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Pretty crafty. Any idea how to get it to strip out <img src>s and <a href>s?

   i.e. do to it something similar to what the excerpt function does.

4. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 3 years ago #

   $content = strip_tags($content); will strip the html out of the content before you do the character thing.

5. buskerdog
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm looking through post-template.php for a clue as to what I can do to $content to strip that stuff out but I'm not finding it. Thoughts?

6. buskerdog
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   heh should have refreshed. I had a feeling it was strip_tags but for some reason I was trying everything else first. Thanks!

7. buskerdog
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   If anyone finds this thread later trying to do what I wanted to do here's how it finally looks:

   <div class="entry">
   <?php $content = get_the_content();
         $content = strip_tags($content);
         echo substr($content, 0, 255);
   ?>…<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">click for more...</a>
   </div>

   The whole point of this was to free up my excerpt for something else.

8. t31os
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   As an alternative i think you could proberly create a second excerpt function in the theme functions.php.

9. buskerdog
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Yeah, I thought about that. I'm trying to keep my customization to my themes as much as possible to prevent upgrades from becoming a mess.

10. t31os
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Example posted in this thread....

    Here

    You would of course not need the remove_filter part....

    The code posted is a replacement, but it could be used as a secondary function to...

11. Mark
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    The only problem with that then is if you upgrade your WP install then your changes would probably get overwritten!

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