Display only text to WordPress loop without loosing the text formatting

Question

I want to display text from content (only text) with the formating (paragraph, bold, italic.) on loop. When I am using this code:

<?php echo mb_substr( strip_tags( get_the_excerpt() ),0,255); ?>

or

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

The text displayed without the text formating. No p, br even the hr is disappear.

When I am using this code:

<?php echo apply_filters('the_content',substr(get_the_content(),0,550)); ?>

The text displayed with the format, but the other content also display (image, video and else) I just want to display the text with the format.

Anybody know how to resolve the problem? Really appreciate for any help

Thank you

Answer 1

Try this code in your theme's functions.php file-

function filtered_content($content){
    $content = preg_replace("/<img[^>]+\>/i", "", $content); // removes images
    $content = preg_replace('/<iframe.*?>/', "", $content); // removes iframes
    return $content;
}
add_filter('the_content', 'filtered_content');

This will remove img and iframe tag from your content. Then use the_content() in your template.