Excerpt Length and Read More Issues

  • liarandathief

    (@liarandathief)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    The excerpt length option in the widget seems limited by the default wordpress excerpt length. I can go below it but not above it.

    Further, I’m using a filter to alter the default excerpt_more and so the widget is pulling in my new “read more” text but without linking it, meaning that if I use the widget’s “read more” I get something like this:

    This is my post…read more. <a href="http://#">Read More >></a>

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-widget-extended/

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  • bgallagher

    (@bgallagher)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    I have the same issue. I modified the widget for the time being to fix this issue.

    the issue is in the “includes\functions.php” ~line 178
    $html .= wp_trim_words( apply_filters( 'rpwe_excerpt', get_the_excerpt() ), $args['length'], ' …' );

    The issue is that the excerpt is pulling in the “read more text” BEFORE it’s being trimmed. Here is my edit to fix the issue:

    $html .= wp_trim_words( apply_filters( 'rpwe_excerpt', get_the_content() ), $args['length'], ' …' );

    carlou5

    (@carlou5)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    bgallagher, having 2 “read more” texts is very redundant lol so thanks!!!

    That was such a quick fix. Hopefully they add this to the actual plugin because it would get erased if it updates. I had to disable plugin updates so it doesn’t break in the future.

    gabbo_21

    (@gabbo_21)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    bgallagher, your fix has help me out to, but now have the issue of getting the image layout bits included.

    eg. [gallery columns="4" orderby="title"] & [gallery type='flickr' user_id='98326023@N07' view='photosets' photoset_id='72157639352499826' columns='3' tag_mode='any' sort='date-posted-desc']

    houseplanet.dj

    (@houseplanetdj)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Thank you for this solution, bgallagher.
    Every time I upgrade the plugin, I need to edit functions.php.
    I think developers could fix it finally.

    All the best,
    HousePlanet.

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