Questions tagged [excerpt]
Excerpts are short texts or summaries
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Excerpt long comments
I am trying to excerpt a long comment in my wordpress site.
I want to do it in coding.
I have not tried downloading a plugin yet.
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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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How to show a full post, not just an excerpt in wordpress? [on hold]
I have a blog page where blog posts have an excerpt on with a continue reading link below.
When the link is clicked the full post should appear/or should be diverted to.
This isn't that case. The ...
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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 Automattically Regenerate Excerpt
I constantly update my posts, and one problem i face is that the excerpt is the first few words of the first ever version of my post.
This means that even if i update my posts, to update the first ...
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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
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts(...
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Split the_content into two parts
I want to split the content of a post into two parts. The First part is in an <strong>-tag, it is like a excerpt and in the second part i want to display the rest of the content. But I don‘t ...
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How to display post content instead of excerpt
I am using a plugin, and to get around something I need to add some text to the excerpt field on my posts, but I don't want to display the excerpt field data on the front end, but rather the post ...
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How to show excerpt field
My excerpt field has vanished on the back-end of WordPress posts. Even when ticked in "screen options" it does not display. There's nothing in my functions.php that would override it... So is there ...
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Custom get_the_excerpt() only works on first post
I use a custom get_the_excerpt function in my theme. It works perfectly for the first post in the loop, but the other posts are using the standard excerpt function. I do not understand why?
The ...
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Hide excerpt note [duplicate]
Under the WordPress excerpt meta box is a note:
Excerpts are optional hand-crafted summaries of your content that can
be used in your theme. Learn more about manual excerpts.
Is it possible to ...
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How to remove youtube links on the wordpress post excerpts
currently the word press excerpt shows a YouTube link if the post has a YouTube video inside.
I saw this code:
function remove_links($text)
{
if ('' == $text )
{
$pattern = '~http:/...
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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
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How to replace get_the_excerpt with first N words of post article while stripping html
I'm trying to add Twitter Card functionality to a Wordpress blog so that whenever someone posts a link to an article on Twitter, the card displays. Here is the code I put in functions.php of my theme ...
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Keep excerpt from stripping URLs and enable autoembed for youtube ONLY?
Is there an easy way to drop something into functions? I tried removing all filters from the_excerpt and the URLs are still being stripped (not links, but just straight URLs). I've scoured the ...
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excerpt() shows different result between remote and localhost(development environment)
Something strange when I am developing my own theme.
Not sure what have I changed recently, but the the_excerpt() or get_the_excerpt() started to show full text on my localhost dev environment, while ...
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Post using the_content() and the_excerpt()
I can't wrap my head around this one. I've tried so many different ways. I'm new to wordpress, so please excuse my noobie question!
I'm trying to get the following loop below to display all my post ...
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the_excerpt filter doesn't work as expected
I'm having an issue related to the_excerpt filter. For some reason, if the post being displayed in a posts listing contains only shortcodes, it will execute those shortcodes no matter what.
What I ...
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How to make WordPress orderby work with post_excerpt column?
I can use WordPress in-built orderby to sort playlist by any column except post_excerpt
echo wp_playlist_shortcode( array(
'ids' => '7,8,9',
'...
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Disable WYSIWYG rich text editor only on post excerpt
I am pulling info from the excerpt of a custom post type into a 3rd party application. I need to be able to add line breaks and for them to be saved in the database. If my user switches to "visual" ...
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Custom excerpt length filter doesn't work
So I'm trying to change the standard post excerpt length.
Every single blog post on the web tells me to do it with a filter like this:
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );
...
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Excerpt being limited too early
I grabbed the code from here
I have this in my post right now:
"Test sentence for excerpt purposes.
Link:
https://www.ankitdesigns.com/demo/bysc/competitive/ontario-player-development-league/"
...
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How to change value of variable in theme file with functions.php Wordpress?
I want to change values of the variable in my theme. I don't want to edit in this file because after update theme, it will be lost.
So, I want to update values of this variable in functions.php.
In ...
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Can I change a control's transport in Customizer depending on the previewed page?
I have a theme with an option for setting the excerpt length for generated excerpts. Is there a way in the Customizer of conditionally changing the transport mechanism, depending on whether the ...
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the_excerpt is displaying excerpts of every post
I have a simple page for outputting all posts (index. php)
Unfortunately the excerpt shows me the excerpts of all entries.
what's the mistake?
<?php while (have_posts()) : ...
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Add “Excerpt” in “Quick edit”
I have many posts in which I want to edit the excerpt. But instead of having to got to the edit page, I would want to do it with the "Quick Edit" feature.
How can I add the excerpt in the Quick Edit ...
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Allow latex in wordpress excerpt
I've found some code below which allows you to write HTML in a WordPress excerpt.
Allow HTML in excerpt
I would like to write LaTeX in the excerpt as well (using Beautiful Maths from Jetpack).
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Post content not showing
I have this code that works perfect:
<?php
$temp = $wp_query; $wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query(); $wp_query->query('posts_per_page=5' . '&paged='.$paged);
while ($wp_query->...
