http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:31:40 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-6585 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:28:12 +0000 Deirdre 6585@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>You rock, thanks! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-6575 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:00:28 +0000 amygail 6575@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hey Deirdre<br /> This should do it</p> <p><a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/read-more-link-in-excerpt-redux#post-6323" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/read-more-link-in-excerpt-redux#post-6323</a> </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-6548 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:31:37 +0000 Deirdre 6548@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi everyone -</p> <p>I used the code by Justin Tadlock in function.php and was successful in displaying excerpts on the home page, which is exactly what I was looking for.</p> <p>The only thing I'm not sure how to do is create a link after the excerpt to the full post - like a "Read More..." link. </p> <p>Does anyone know how would I go about doing that?</p> <p>Thanks in advance!</p> <p>~Deirdre </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-4186 Sun, 31 May 2009 19:32:39 +0000 McGirl2008 4186@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Chris, thank you!! I just found the answer you'd already written here:<br /> <a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-a-loop#post-3684" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/adding-a-loop#post-3684</a></p> <p>And I was able to get excerpts working on the home page using:</p> <p>function childtheme_content($content) {<br /> if (is_home() || is_front_page()) {<br /> $content= 'excerpt';}<br /> return $content;<br /> }<br /> add_filter('thematic_content', 'childtheme_content');</p> <p>Thanks again!<br /> Michelle </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-4156 Fri, 29 May 2009 19:22:27 +0000 McGirl2008 4156@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Ditto, I'd love your advice. I can overwrite the default thematic_content function if necessary so it doesn't force full posts on the home page but it sounds like you're already working on it. </p> <p>What I'd really like to do is use the Advanced Excerpt plugin (as suggested by Ian here: <a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/limiting-excerpt-length#post-985" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/limiting-excerpt-length#post-985</a>) but it doesn't work on the site home page.</p> <p>Thanks!!<br /> Michelle </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-3712 Mon, 04 May 2009 16:29:28 +0000 Chris 3712@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hey,</p> <p>let me check this first with the Acamas theme .. I implemented a new filter which enables you to tell Thematic to use the full post, an excerpt or no post content.</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Chris </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-3695 Sun, 03 May 2009 20:15:22 +0000 neverknock 3695@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I also trying to add excerpts to the home page of my blog, which uses the the Acamas template.</p> <p>Based on previous comments, I have done the following:</p> <p>Added Justin Tadlock's code to function.php:</p> <p>// Create a excerpt on the home page<br /> function my_excerpts($content = false) {</p> <p>// If is the home page, an archive, or search results<br /> if(is_front_page() || is_archive() || is_search()) :<br /> global $post;<br /> $content = $post-&gt;post_excerpt;</p> <p> // If an excerpt is set in the Optional Excerpt box<br /> if($content) :<br /> $content = apply_filters('the_excerpt', $content);</p> <p> // If no excerpt is set<br /> else :<br /> $content = $post-&gt;post_content;<br /> $excerpt_length = 55;<br /> $words = explode(' ', $content, $excerpt_length + 1);<br /> if(count($words) &gt; $excerpt_length) :<br /> array_pop($words);<br /> array_push($words, '...');<br /> $content = implode(' ', $words);<br /> endif;<br /> $content = '&lt;p&gt;' . $content . '&lt;/p&gt;';</p> <p> endif;<br /> endif;</p> <p>// Make sure to return the content<br /> return $content;</p> <p>In addition, in variant.css I have made following change to premit content to appear:</p> <p>/* .home .entry-content, */<br /> .home .entry-meta,<br /> .home .entry-utility {<br /> display:none;<br /> }</p> <p>At this point, my site hasn't launched. That being the case, I did write an excerpt with the placeholder post to see if it would appear—it doesn't. It appears, however, in Archive and Categories.</p> <p>I comfortable working with PHP. As such, I look foward to any advise you all have.</p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-1746 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:11:53 +0000 Anthrax 1746@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>The excerpt works fine, but how can i force the_exerpt to ignore image tags?<br /> To show you the Problem just take a look at my Blog and scoll down till "neues Ego in der XBox360 Welt!".</p> <p>[solved] ... with preg_replace </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-1733 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:03:31 +0000 Chris 1733@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>No code changes needed here! </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-1725 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:02:54 +0000 Chris 1725@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hey Anthrax,</p> <p>I checked some blogs regarding Syntax Highlighting yesterday .. The plugins using the 'pre' tag plus the GeSHi code were reported to be pretty robust against most of the excerpt tools. Unfortunately a lot of tools are doing a lot of things using filter functions. None of us can give you an general answer if a plugin would work in general.</p> <p>This was the major reason why I copied the functionality of excerpt and expert_rss into thematic functions to make it bullet-proof.</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Chris </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-1721 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:52:02 +0000 Anthrax 1721@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Does it work if we use other Plugins that have a content filter? A Code-View Plugin needs a</p> <p><code>&lt;pre&gt;</code> tag at the beginning and the end of a Code display in a post. Whats happend if the_excerpt cut it between this two tags? </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-1719 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:34:15 +0000 Ian Stewart 1719@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Read Justin's example. It's exactly what you're talking about. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-1718 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:32:14 +0000 waseem 1718@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Yeah but it would be way cooler if you can do it through the functions file of the child theme. Not sure if that's possible. Maybe there is a way to filter it out or something. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-1717 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:20:02 +0000 Ian Stewart 1717@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Justin Tadlock has a good example of how to do this:</p> <p><a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/08/24/replacing-wordpress-content-with-an-excerpt-without-editing-theme-files" rel="nofollow">http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/08/24/replacing-wordpress-content-with-an-excerpt-without-editing-theme-files</a> </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-1716 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:31:35 +0000 waseem 1716@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>in the index file instead of using get_content(); I used get_the_excerpt(). This calls for the excerpt you typed when you published a post. If you dont have an excerpt I think wordpress fakes one by placing the first 55 words of the post. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-1707 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:31:51 +0000 Chris 1707@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hey,</p> <p>could you please let me know what you changed in index.php.</p> <p>I'm currently working on Thematic 0.9 to make it more flexible.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Chris </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-1704 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:41:15 +0000 waseem 1704@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Ohh I figured it out but I had to edit the index file of the thematic theme. Is there a way to do this from my functions file with out touching the index.php? </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/creating-a-short-excerpt#post-1703 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:33:58 +0000 waseem 1703@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hey,<br /> How can I change the amount of words that show up for a post. I only want a short excerpt of the content rather than showing the whole post. </p>