Change excerpt per widget

  • borzoid

    (@borzoid)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hi I am trying to use a plugin to display a single random featured post on the home page.

    The content of the article is too long but the excerpt is much much too short. If I change the length of the excerpt it messes with other areas of the site and other plugins.

    Is there a way to apply a custom excerpt length to just this one widget area or it’s div. ( am also needed formatting <P><a><b><em> )

    Thanks in advance

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  • Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hi borzoid

    What plugin are you using?

    Thread Starter borzoid

    (@borzoid)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Hi, I am using Extended Featured Widget

    The widget offers

    full content (of which ours is too long)
    excerpt (which is too short and if we adjust it other areas of the page which use exerpts are affected)paragraphs, links and formatting are kept through a functions function.
    or
    Count – which allows you to set your own length for that widget. This is great and helpful but when used – all paragraphs and formatting are lost.

    We can get around this by using manual excerpts however may not be able to count on all authors doing this or knowing the best excerpt length to use.

    Solutions: 1. assign custom excerpt length via a function or template for just that “div”. or 2. Modify the plugin to save/ excerpt formatting.

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