Marc Smits

I use EventCalendar3 and which displays 3 upcoming events in my sidebar. For every event I need about 60 characters of the posts’ text.

<?php substr($myexcerpt, 0, 60); ?>

So I want only the text from a post, otherwise it might cause it display HTML-code in the sidebar.

query_posts is an option, but how do I get WordPress to filter it?

$this_post_id = the_ID();

in the code snippet above should be:

$this_post_id = get_the_ID();