Problem with the excerpt

  • Filip

    (@vladfilip)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    hello, got this little problem that drives me nutz’, and hope you can give me a tip or something…

    so… i want to use the excerpt on my category pages… so… when i have:

    <?php the_content(); ?>

    working great… it displays the content…

    but when i change it to

    <?php the_excerpt(); ?>

    nothing shows up as the content! All i got is the title, and other elements… but no article content …

    do you have any suggestions? I just can’t figure it out… I would really apreciate it

    Thank you!

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  • borantula

    (@borantula)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    can you give more clue
    write the loop part of the category page maybe

    Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Pages don’t natively support excerpts. You need to add support for excerpts to Pages, if you want to use the_excerpt().

    Try this, in functions.php:

    add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' );

    Thread Starter Filip

    (@vladfilip)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    hello, thank you for your answer… taht didn’t work either… i don’t know why… i managed to resolve this issue with copying a fragment of better excerpt plugin in functions.php:

    add_option("better_excerpt_length", '250', '', 'yes');
add_option("better_excerpt_ellipsis", '...', '', 'yes');
add_option("better_excerpt_before_text", '<p>', '', 'yes');
add_option("better_excerpt_after_text", '</p>', '', 'yes');
add_option("better_excerpt_keep_line_breaks", '0', '', 'yes'); 

function get_options(){
 $options = array();
 $options['length'] = get_option(better_excerpt_length);
 $options['ellipsis'] = get_option(better_excerpt_ellipsis);
 $options['before_text'] = get_option(better_excerpt_before_text);
 $options['after_text'] = get_option(better_excerpt_after_text);

return $options;
}

function better_excerpt($length, $ellipsis, $before_text, $after_text) {
$permalink = get_permalink($post->ID);
$text = get_the_content();
$text = preg_replace(" (\[.*?\])",'',$text);
 if ($keep_line_breaks == 0) {
$text = strip_tags($text);
 }
 else {
$text = strip_tags($text, '<p><br>');
 }
$text = substr($text, 0, $length);
$text = substr($text, 0, strripos($text, " "));
$text = trim(preg_replace( '/\s+/', ' ', $text));
$text = stripslashes($before_text).$text.$ellipsis;
$text .=stripslashes($after_text);
return $text;
}

function get_better_excerpt() {
$options = get_options();
extract($options);
return better_excerpt($length, $ellipsis, $before_text, $after_text);
}

remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'get_better_excerpt');

    and now it works…

    Thank you again!

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