Excepts pulling text from the current page's template and not from recent posts

@satrya I think so… Version 0.9?

Here is what the guy on the Modern Tribe Events Calendar forum told me:

The Community add-on uses custom routing and re-writes the WordPress loop in order to display the Event Submission form and other pages. I would suggest modifying the rpwe_excerpt() function to get the excerpt using the post ID. Here’s a good example of getting the_excerpt outside of the WordPress loop: http://uplifted.net/programming/wordpress-get-the-excerpt-automatically-using-the-post-id-outside-of-the-loop/

I would try using that as an example to re-write the rpwe_excerpt() function and see if that does the trick. I hope that points you in the right direction, and feel free to let me know if you have further questions. Thanks

Not sure if this helps… He can’t help me beyond that…

https://tri.be/support/forums/topic/screws-up-recent-post-widget-on-sidebar/

Nope. Didn’t work. 🙁

Ok, I guess this is a bug from my plugin. I will fix it soon 🙂

Wow… thanks! I wouldn’t really call it a “bug”, as the widget works beautifully on most pages… it is just the interaction between the two plugins. But I really, really appreciate all your help 🙂

I fixed it by doing this… It may not be the cleanest way to go about it.

I added the following code to my theme functions file (functions.php):

function get_excerpt_by_id($post_id){
$the_post = get_post($post_id); //Gets post ID
$the_excerpt = $the_post->post_content; //Gets post_content to be used as a basis for the excerpt
$excerpt_length = 800; //Sets excerpt length by word count
$the_excerpt = strip_tags(strip_shortcodes($the_excerpt)); //Strips tags and images
$words = explode(' ', $the_excerpt, $excerpt_length + 1);
if(count($words) > $excerpt_length) :
array_pop($words);
array_push($words, '…');
$the_excerpt = implode(' ', $words);
endif;
$the_excerpt = '<p>' . $the_excerpt . '</p>';
return $the_excerpt;
}

And then I changed the code in recent-posts-widget-extended/includes/widget-recent-posts-extended.php… I changed the function rpwe_excerpt by replacing “get_the_excerpt()” with “get_excerpt_by_id($post_id)” as follows:

function rpwe_excerpt( $length ) {
	$content = get_excerpt_by_id($post_id);
	$excerpt = wp_trim_words( $content, $length );

	return $excerpt;
}

I will need to edit:

function rpwe_excerpt( $length ) {
	$content = get_excerpt_by_id($post_id);
	$excerpt = wp_trim_words( $content, $length );

	return $excerpt;
}

before changing <?php echo rpwe_excerpt( $length ); ?> to <?php echo wp_trim_words( get_the_excerpt(), $length ); ?>

Right?

When I made that change, it stopped working again… the way it did before I made my earlier change. Maybe if you used get_excerpt_by_post function instead of get_the_excerpt?