chadrew

Thanks for the help.

For the record, I tried adding:

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404

to my .htaccess, but it didn’t have any effect on IE’s behaviour.

This took me a while but I think I got it. I borrowed the excerpt function from here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hybrid-bugfix/faq/

And modified it to limit only automatic excerpts, since for some reason the 22 word limit limited my “automatic” excerpts properly, but my “manual” excerpts to like 20 characters, no idea why!

In functions.php:

function blabla($excerpt_word_count=24)
{
    global $post;
    $excerpt = $post->post_excerpt;
    if( $excerpt == '' )
    {
        $excerpt = $post->post_content;
        $excerpt = strip_shortcodes( $excerpt );
        $excerpt = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $excerpt);
        $excerpt = strip_tags($excerpt);
	$words = explode(' ', $excerpt, $excerpt_word_count + 1);
	if (count($words) > $excerpt_length)
		{
		array_pop($words);
		$excerpt = implode(' ', $words);
		$excerpt .= '...';
		}
    }
    return $excerpt;
}

<?php if ( is_single() ) { ?>
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo blabla(); ?>" />
<?php } ?>

I’m not sure if this way is better than the other method I saw with creating another “Loop” to get the excerpt.