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How to remove the excerpt in the Dzonia Lite theme

I am using Dzonia Lite theme in my website. My front page shows all the latest posts. I am getting an excerpt at the end of each post. Could anyone suggest me how to remove that excerpt at the end ...
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Word Count Function Preventing Permalink Editing

This code counts the number of words in an excerpt and adds it to the excerpt meta box in the post edit screen: http://snippi.com/s/sn3hk5p However, something about this code is preventing the ...
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Using Schema with `the_excerpt`

I'm currently developing a WordPress site and want to use Schema, I have been some what successful so far but have now hit a stone wall. I want to use: itemprop="description" to the ...
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Excerpt length: get first paragraph

I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to get an excerpt from each post, grabbing the first paragraph from each one. I'm currently using the ACF plugin and have custom post types and custom fields. ...
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How to add an admin function only to posts, not pages?

I'm having a problem with adding an excerpt counter to the excerpt field. It may be a conflict with another plugin, but basically it screws with other jquery if the excerpt field doesn't exist (e.g.: ...
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How to add an excerpt and read more link to a page?

I've a custom/static "homepage.php" in my templates directory at my WordPress. Now I need to show differents "page excerpts" in my homepage, but I don't know what should be do it. At this moment I've ...
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The_excerpt() doesn't parse <!--more--> - how to change that?

I'm using the_excerpt(); in blog.php file (post listing page) and it doesn't recognize <!--more--> if "Excerpt" field is empty and it grabs the beginning of the content as excerpt. This issue ...
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Stripping shortcode from custom excerpt function

I'm using the following function to create a custom excerpt for my homepage and categories pages so I can do it by character count and have a custom "read more". However, I have captions shortcode ...
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wp trim function not working

Ok i have this code currently. <?php query_posts('category_name=widgets2'); echo "<div id='widgets-wrapper2'><div id='marginwidgets' style='overflow: auto; max- width: 100%; height: ...
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get_the_excerpt() not returning anything when post has no excerpt

When trying to call get_the_excerpt() the page does not return anything on posts that have no excerpt. I thought WordPress usually 'fake' it and create one using the first x characters from ...
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Show Video in Excerpt

So I recently figured out how to change my blog page to display excerpts by changing the <?php the_content(); ?> to <?php the_excerpt(); ?> in my index.php file. I am using a custom child ...
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Adding a filter to my posts

Hello guys I would like to append a link to the end of the content within my post. I currently have this in my functions.php file: function ifcj_comment_link() { global $post; return ' <a href="'. ...
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display public excerpt for private post

Thank you in advanced. I know there are plugins that can do this, but I am looking for a simple solution for my function file. I would like to display the excerpt for all posts with the more tag for ...
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Using “Read More” link with custom excerpt

The following functions.php edit (contributed by helgatheviking on the themeshaper forums) allows the use of a "Read More" link with custom excerpts. My problem is simply this: I'm inept at editing ...
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Custom excerpt function re-factoring

This may be more of a php best practices question, but here goes... I am using a custom excerpt trim function: function new_wp_trim_excerpt($text) { // Fakes an excerpt if needed global $post; ...
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How to display retweet count and likes in the meta above the excerpt

There are several plugins that insert buttons to retweet and like into a post. You can see the count of retweets and likes at the top of single blog posts. What I want to do is show the retweets and ...