I’m using “the_content_rss” to display a snippet of text from a post under a photo thumbnail on my homepage. Works great but the snippet shows the WordPress gallery shortcode () that I’ve inserted to display a bunch of photos for that post.

I know I could move the shortcode to the end of my post, but then it would mess up the page’s layout.

Is there a way to tell “the_content_rss” to ignore or hide the gallery shortcode the way it can be told to strip HTML code?

How to do?

I have enabled my homepage to display blog posts. Some of the posts however have links, but these are disabled on the homepage. Any way to enable them? I was reading about the “the_content_rss” method and thought changing it would solve my problem, but no luck. It is as follows:

<?php the_content_rss(”, TRUE, ”, 37); ?>

There is supposed to be a fifth parameter, encode_html, that I thought would enable links, but that didn’t seem to work either, unless something else went wrong. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Both these functions work fine and its gives me content that is 25 or 40 words long, but none of the other parameters work.
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/the_content_rss

I have tried:
the_content_rss('more...', TRUE, '', 25); but it always defaults to “…”

This doesn’t change anything either:
the_content_rss('', FALSE, '', 25);

I know its deprecated but what does that mean in terms of functionality for right now?

I want to be able to display “more…” instead of “…”

Below is the code that the plugin is using:

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
       <div class="imageElement">
            <h2><?php the_title() ?></h2>
            <?php
                 if(get_option('gallery-use-featured-content')) {?>
                 <p><?php $key="featuredtext"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?></p>
                 <?php
                 } else {
                 ?>
                 <p><?php the_content_rss('', false, '', $wordquantity); ?></p>
                 <?php
                 }
?>

Could anyone help me figure out why the function would not be returning any text? Thanks

I’m getting excerpts like

Geskryf deur Francois van Deventer

Bold by me to highlight the problem.

The text is generated by this code: (as far as I can tell)

<?php the_content_rss(”, TRUE, ”, 50); ?>

I’m using the GracioMag theme.

How could I strip the unwanted code?

Thanks

I have been using WP for a long time now and have never come across this problem.

I am trying to use either ‘the_content_rss’ or just ‘content_rss’ on my homepage to display some content from a random post.

Original actual code I am trying to use is <?php the_content_rss('', TRUE, '', 14); ?>

All I am getting as output is the first character of the posts text and nothing more. I have tried many variations and just getting the same again, as though somewhere something is limiting it to 1 single character.

Any ideas? I am using 2.8.3!

Many thanks!

Why?

feed-atom.php is too.

help….? :/

I tried passing it through a crop function afterwards but the_content_rss simply displays as is (even if trying to store it as a string). Passing the_content through works fine, then limiting it to a number of characters using a crop function, but the problem arises when there is a link early in the post so it’ll cut off like:

<p>this is a <a href="https://www...</p>

which tends to break the layout.