Comments on: Customizing the_excerpt() in WordPress

By: Astrajp

Astrajp — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:26:46 +0000

I tried this plugin in found it very nice!
But I have one problem, I want excerpt in different length for 3 places. One in the “headline”, one in the “categories” (in the middle of the main page), and the last one in a widget.
Is there any way to do this without get rid of all of the html codes? (Now I am using a code to trim the excerpt, but it results in plain text)
Thanks for your help.

By: rob

rob — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:24:26 +0000

so does this plug in support 2.7? I can’t understand why finding something to merely control the number of words displayed is so hard. I have gone through 3 plugin and none work on 2.7. And based on the last comment this one may not – please advise as it would be great to get this working.

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By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:48:31 +0000

I installed Custom Excerpts and set the length to 60 and test posted a long entry but it didn’t work. The entire post, rather than the excerpt, shows. I changed some settings and made a few more posts but none of them were shortened to show just the excerpt. I’m on WP 2.7. Am I missing something? Thanks.

By: guvnrDOTcom

guvnrDOTcom — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:43:51 +0000

hmmn, sorry Sean but I changed my mind…

I was getting dozens of validation errors with this plugin, but none with advanced excerpt.

I’d prefer to use this cos it’s lighter on pageload … can you get it to validate?

By: Bill Miller

Bill Miller — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:08:35 +0000

Sean – I would like to have a side bar in my html website that says “Latest Blog Entries” and then list the latest five entries, and then when a visitors clicks on a link, have it go to that post in the blog.

I do not know how to code this. Can you recommend what I need? Thank you.

Bill

By: guvnrDOTcom

guvnrDOTcom — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:23:00 +0000

cracking Sean, thank you

…and only 1/4 the weight of Advanced Excerpt, and easier to use

… used to good effect on my site…hope you like that, just click on Blog on the homepage to see.

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By: Brendan Nee

Brendan Nee — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:34:43 +0000

Great plugin, just what I was looking for. I uncovered an issue that comes up when you leave the plugin’s “Excerpt text” field blank. When it is left blank, the plugin also ignores any length specified. This is because of the last few lines on the ce_excerpt_filter function. The array_pop and implode commands need to be outside of the last if statement.
array_pop($words); if ($MoreText) { array_push($words, ''.$MoreText.''); } $text = implode(' ', $words); return $text;