Here is how to setup a custom WordPress excerpt function with the following criteria: This will allow you to limit the amount of characters displayed in the excerpt While limiting the number of characters displayed this will prevent the last word from getting cut off. In other words it will […]
The following function will create a custom function to create a unique character limit excerpt for the post. Add the following to functions.php:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | function get_the_popular_excerpt(){ $excerpt = get_the_content(); $excerpt = preg_replace(" (\[.*?\])",'',$excerpt); $excerpt = strip_shortcodes($excerpt); $excerpt = strip_tags($excerpt); $excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, 40); $excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, strripos($excerpt, " ")); $excerpt = trim(preg_replace( '/\s+/', ' ', $excerpt)); $excerpt = $excerpt.'... <a href="'.$permalink.'">more</a>'; return $excerpt; } |
Add the following to the page template to get the function to show:
1 2 3 | <?php echo get_the_popular_excerpt(); ?> |
Here is how to limit the post title length.
1 2 3 | <?php if (strlen($post->post_title) > 35) {echo substr(the_title($before = '', $after = '', FALSE), 0, 40) . '...'; } else {the_title();} ?> |
Replace your post title with the snippet above.
Here is how to show the excerpt with a custom length of characters that will not cutoff the word. You also do not need to add anything to fucntions.php for this to work. Make sure the following code is between the if (have_posts) section.
1 2 3 | <?php echo substr( get_the_excerpt(), 0, strrpos( substr( get_the_excerpt(), 0, 350), ' ' ) . '[...]' ); ?> |
Change the number “350” to […]
Here is how to setup a custom length excerpt without cutting off the last word. First, Add the following snippet to your functions.php file:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | function get_excerpt($count){ $permalink = get_permalink($post->ID); $excerpt = get_the_content(); $excerpt = strip_tags($excerpt); $excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, $count); $excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, strripos($excerpt, " ")); $excerpt = $excerpt.'... <a href="'.$permalink.'">more</a>'; return $excerpt; } |
Next, add the following code where you want the excerpt to show up:
1 2 3 | <?php echo get_excerpt(125); ?> |
Change your excerpt length from 125 to whatever length you want […]