rebroken

+1

I made two further hacks to get my excerpts back.

1. Near line 77, replace:

$post_excerpt = $post->post_excerpt;

With

setup_postdata( $post );
$post_excerpt = get_the_excerpt();

2. Near line 186, replace:

<?php echo $this->_truncate_post($length)
                . ($moretext != '' ? ' <a href="' . get_permalink() . '" class="read-more">' . $moretext . '</a>' : ''); ?>

With:

<?php echo $this->_truncate_post($length)
                . ($moretext != '' ? ' <a href="' . get_permalink() . '" class="read-more">' . $moretext . '</a>' : ''); ?>
            <?php echo $this->_truncate_post($length); ?>
            <?php echo ($moretext != '') ? ' <a href="' . get_permalink() . '" class="read-more">' . $moretext . '</a>' : ''; ?>

I have around 130 websites using this plugin so unfortunately I’ve had to fork it, but my changes are only in a Github repository. If you want to “upgrade” to my fork, do the following:

1. Install the Github Updater plugin from https://github.com/afragen/github-updater

2. Edit the top of this plugin’s php file (tw-recent-posts.php) to include two extra lines below Version: 1.0.4 but above the end of the comment section (*/):

GitHub Plugin URI: https://github.com/sol1/tw-recent-posts-widget
GitHub Branch:     sol1

With any luck you should now be able to upgrade from 1.0.4 to 1.1.5.

If you can’t see the upgrade available try installing https://wordpress.org/plugins/force-plugin-updates-check/.

Hi

I worked around this by replacing tw-recent-posts-widget.php line 242:

$cats = get_categories(array('hide_empty' => 0, 'name' => 'category', 'hierarchical' => true));

With:

$cats = get_categories(array('hide_empty' => 0, 'hierarchical' => true));

Hope that helps