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1. tigeractive
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm using WP-O-Matic to automatically post to my blog via RSS I choose. But some feeds are full-text and so I end up with a whole article on my homepage - yuck. I have selected the "Summary" option in wordpress but that doesn't help.

   Any way to force wordpress to truncate every post? Maybe a plugin to set maximum length for posts?

2. tigeractive
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Help? I would think that this is a common problem but I'm surprised to find nothing...no plugin, wordpress feature...

3. aaron_guitar
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm not really familiar with WP-O-Matic but you could probably go into your theme and replace the_content() with the_excerpt() which would force it to show a shortened version. This would probably be in your index.php or archive.php file.

4. tigeractive
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   That worked aaron, thanks a lot!!!

5. tigeractive
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   oops, I just noticed that this method removes all images from posts :(

6. aaron_guitar
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Try this out: http://sparepencil.com/code/advanced-excerpt/

7. tigeractive
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Works perfect! I know there must be a plugin, knowing how pragmatic the WP community is. Thank you for hunting it down for me aaron!

8. riteseo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   aaron_guitar, bro the link is not opening and i really need some help here.. can someone please help here

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