I’m building a theme that is going to show excerpts on the homepage for potentially dozens of posts. I don’t have manual excerpts on all of my posts, so $post->post_excerpt is empty for many posts. In the event that there isn’t a manual excerpt, I would like to use the built-in get_the_excerpt() function, but it isn’t available outside the loop.
Why is it that one cannot get the excerpt by ID like with the title and most other elements.
I need add to the excerpt field the TinyMCE Advanced editor, any ideas?
This is proving to be a challenge.
I have a Multisite WordPress installation with 7 different blogs. I want to show an aggregate of the summaries of posts from those 7 blogs in the main blog. Do you know a good way to do this?
I’d really like to take all of my old posts, and automatically use the meta descriptions we have written – currently done for each post using All In One SEO Pack – and copy them to also be our post excerpts.
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 showing up in my excerpt.
The code below from WPSnipps provides an excerpt character counter, but I’d like to count words instead. Does anybody have an idea of how to do this?
I am trying to find out how I can control how an excerpt is displayed using PHP. How do I get it to render the html spacing within the post instead of just showing one big paragraph.Hope that makes sense.
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 preview page is showing excerpts?