Questions tagged [excerpt]
Excerpts are short texts or summaries
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Any way to get more space for editing post excerpts
Using latest WP with Gutenberg. The excerpt metabox is (as you'd expect) over in the right column with the Document settings.
Is there any way to get it out of that column and into the main area ...
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How to show text near a specific word/tag/category?
can someone give some examples of code that I can use in the tag and category loop pages, which will give out the content near a word?
Here is an explanation.
The default function of the category and ...
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the_excerpt() is not trimming at <!--more-->
I am using the following code:
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
This trims after 50 ish words, way after the <!--more--> I added in the post's source.
This, instead, correctly trims out the ...
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Plugin to style post Excerpts
So, I have a site that is running Tom's WP Show Posts and I have it set to show the excerpt of a post. I am styling the excerpt with some preexisting WordPress CSS classes and using JavaScript to ...
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get_the_excerpt only returns one excerpt
Just starting with WP and my inexperience is completely showing. When I use the function get_the_excerpt(), it only returns one excerpt for the most recent blog post, and not the other ones.
I am ...
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Add default custom excerpt that executes a shortcode
I'm trying to get a default custom excerpt for posts.
I've got a shortcode that executes if it is manually entered into the WordPress post editor excerpt meta box. To do this functions.php has
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Need to show post summary in sidebar
I need to show a summary of each post in the sidebar. Is there any way to do this?
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How to change / delete product short description in Woocommerce
How to change / delete product short description in Woocommerce
I use
$short_desc = $post->post_excerpt;
to read the property but I cant change it with
wp_set_object_terms($post->ID, $post-&...
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Cannot figure out how to add a read more link to a manual excerpt. Please help
Nothing I do works. I am using a manual excerpt and when I paste this code into functions.php the words read more appear but they are not a link. Why is this?
add_filter( 'wp_trim_excerpt', '...
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Force user to write excerpt before saving post? [duplicate]
Is it possible, in functions.php, to force users by default to write an excerpt before they can save a post? And ideally, would it be possible to make this mandatory in only certain post categories?
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Retrieving post excerpt as a shortcode
How do I register a shortcode to add the manual post excerpt anywhere within the same post? Does this shortcode already exist in WP?
Thanks!
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Customize Search Results Body Content
Is there a way to customize the search results page to show the original text formatting in the post_text_inner class as its seen on the original post or portfolio page instead of showing everything ...
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Appending „read more” to the excerpt conditionally
I wonder if anyone knows how to add an if to this function. I need the read more to only be added to the the_excerpt when the category is 429
function mywiki_trim_excerpt($mywiki_text) {
$text = ...
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PHP Code in excerpt?
Is there a way I can add <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Read more at: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a> in the excerpt manually?
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How do I disable excerpts on blogs and website
I want to disable the excerpt from showing in blog and entire website in functions.php file.
This didn't work
add_filter( 'excerpt_more', '__return_empty_string' );
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How to extract an excerpt from a specific page?
Is there a way to extract an excerpt from a specific page? I've created a child theme and enabled excerpts on the pages. I know how to extract all excerpts for pages... but is there a way to extract ...
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Why do I get the same excerpt for all items in my RSS feed?
I'm new to coding and know next to nothing. I've done a ton research on the web, and I foudn the following code to import an RSS feed and place it in my template. The problem is that while I get 10 ...
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Display Full Content Instead of Excerpt
I want to display the full page content rather than the excerpt in my child theme.
If I make the changes to the parent, they appear on the site. If changes are made to same exact file in child, they ...
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Why in archive page doesn´t show read more button with excerpt?
in this page
https://blog.despierta.org/page/3/
Last post is with excerpt.
If my posts don´t have excerpt show read more If I add excerpt the button doesn´t show.
In functions.php
// Replaces ...
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Trying to modify content.php
I am trying to tweak the bootstrap basic theme so that it shows excerpts. It does it when using search but not by default.
I am trying to figure out what I need to change on the content.php file. ...
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Strip div From Excerpt
I have the_excerpt() in a specific page, I need to strip a div and keep the text, but only in the excerpt of that page.
I believe I need to create a function with custom excerpt, but I don't how to ...
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wp_trim_words() does not trim the_content() in WordPress
In my WordPress website, I want to show a short text of each blog_post on the custom blog template. I want to show a Read More button with a link to the post at the end so a user can click on that ...
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How to use limit post content on archive page in WordPress?
I am using the advanced_ads plugin on my WordPress website which allows me to create different types of ads including image ad, rich content ad etc. The plugin allows shortcodes usage for showing ads ...
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Change the number of excerpts displayed in search results layout
WP 5.1 TwentySeventeen (child) theme.
_posts_per_page = 1
For search results I want to display 5 excerpts.
Using this answer and this page I was able to do that but displayed excerpts are not from ...
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How to change the length of characters in Posts Excerpt in Grid on homepage?
Can anyone help... I have managed to change the excerpt length on category pages using this
function uxbarn_custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
return 30;
}
BUT - what I need is how to change the ...
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Moved a website and excerpts don't work for old posts
I moved a WordPress website to a different host and all post excerpts stopped working in the blog list.
When I make a new post they appear fine but doesn't show for the old posts.
I peaked into the ...
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How can we display full post on home page rather than excerpt
I have a puzzle website where i am looking for the option to display full question on the home page rather than excerp. Just a note that questions are custom posts. Is there any way.
Thanks
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Adding specific custom fields (images) to post excerpt
I am working on a simple user profile archive, using the theme "Atomic Blocks" as a starter theme. I am using one custom post type and several custom post fields to create these user profiles. The ...
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Automatic excerpt option is not working on latest post of a custom theme
I am using HTML blank template for a custom theme. There excerpt option is not working in the live server but in local server the excerpt is working.
here is my code
function html5wp_index($length)
...
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Excerpt using Read More Tag
How do I get the excerpt of a post that is using a Read More Tag? The documentation states that I should use the the_content function, but I don't want that. I just want the text. Furthermore, I don't ...
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get_the_excerpt() is not working as expected - returns wrong text
In my template's 'footer.php', I'm attempting to generate a list of the four most recent blog posts, showing the featured image, title, excerpt, and a link to view.
The title, featured image, and URL ...
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How to display only the excerpt in the blog/posts page with Gutenberg?
I'm building a custom child theme using the Twenty Nineteen default WordPress theme as the parent.
I added some text in the excerpt section available in the Editor as follows:
But the full content ...
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Remove Default Read More Link in Manual Excerpt RSS Feed
I have a site that displays manual excerpts on the blog post page: https://teralynnchilds.com/blog. I added a custom read more link using the snippet found here: https://wpmayor.com/add-read-link-...
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Shortcodes in excerpts returning empty string
I got this code:
function ntt_movie_shortcode($atts, $content = null)
{
return 'TEST';
}
add_shortcode('ntt_movie', 'ntt_movie_shortcode');
The shortcode works perfectly on a single page, but on ...
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Generate a excerpt from an ACF-wysiwyg-field
I have an ACF-field, that gives an output like this:
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-48" src="http://...
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How to add excerpt and read more button to category archive page
I am finding it hard to add excerpt and read more button to my category archive page
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How to custom excerpt?
I wanted to make the excerpt only display second or third paragraph.
I need to know. How can I make the_excerpt() only display second or third paragraph and limit the length of the except.
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Gutenberg is Adding Additional HTML Tags When Grabbing the Excerpt
I am running into an issue with Gutenberg where I want to display the excerpt of a post, even when the excerpt field isn't filled in. Usually the functionality of WordPress is when the excerpt is ...
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How can I make the excerpt for a post be the featured image?
I am migrating a blog from blogger (ex blogspot) to wordpress and am looking to take each post's featured image and show it in its excerpt. So, how can I set an excerpt for a post to show the post's ...
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Excerpts not showing
does anybody see anything wrong with the code? It's not showing the excerpts.
It it is supposed to show the first 55 words of the content.
The site is this one.
And this is the code:
<article id=...
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custom excerpt is not being shown
I am trying to show custom excerpt using the_excerpt(). the full code is as follows:
<div id="content">
<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts(...
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Split the_content into two parts
I want to split the content of a post into two parts. The First part is in an <strong>-tag, it is like a excerpt and in the second part i want to display the rest of the content. But I don‘t ...
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How to display post content instead of excerpt
I am using a plugin, and to get around something I need to add some text to the excerpt field on my posts, but I don't want to display the excerpt field data on the front end, but rather the post ...
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How to show excerpt field
My excerpt field has vanished on the back-end of WordPress posts. Even when ticked in "screen options" it does not display. There's nothing in my functions.php that would override it... So is there ...
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Custom get_the_excerpt() only works on first post
I use a custom get_the_excerpt function in my theme. It works perfectly for the first post in the loop, but the other posts are using the standard excerpt function. I do not understand why?
The ...
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Hide excerpt note [duplicate]
Under the WordPress excerpt meta box is a note:
Excerpts are optional hand-crafted summaries of your content that can
be used in your theme. Learn more about manual excerpts.
Is it possible to ...
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Enable HTML Tags in Wordpress Post excerpt
i did enyone know how i can enable HTML for the Post excerpt thet i can make some parts of thet big?
Sorry for my Bad english and thanks for awnser :)
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the_excerpt displaying code inside style tag
I created a custom visual composer element where I included a style tag on it to use the chosen color to create hover effect.
And this code is now displaying in the the_excerpt in the search result ...
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“read more” tag for excerpt() won't show full content
i'm working on a blog page.i'm trying to use excerpt() function to add "read more" tag to get to the full content page and the comment section. there is a div like this
<div class="post-excerpt"&...
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How to strip header tags & shortcodes from the_excerpt()
I'm trying to learn how to strip "header tags" & "shortcodes" from the_excerpt()... Searched for an answer to no avail so thought Id ask the community.
Thanks for your time
Best
Shaun
