• Resolved mvanboordt

    (@mvanboordt)


    Hi,

    I want to edit the excerpt. I have a page that loads excerpts.
    Now I want to have some more control over the excerpt.

    I only want the first sentence. Some are long and some are short so I can’t set a number for max words.

    An other way would be if I could hit enter after a sentence but the excerpt doesn’t accept that. So no matter howmany enters I give behind the first sentence it always shows the next text.

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  • Gary Darling

    (@garydarling)

    Perhaps you could try a regular expression that gets all the words up until the first occurrence of a period.

    Thread Starter mvanboordt

    (@mvanboordt)

    Yeah and how would I do that?

    Technically speaking ??

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    Why not just use the Excerpt input in each Edit Post/Edit Page to handcraft your excerpts?

    Thread Starter mvanboordt

    (@mvanboordt)

    sorry I don’t get that?!

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    Try looking on Edit Post for the Excerpt panel.

    Thread Starter mvanboordt

    (@mvanboordt)

    Yeah tried that but the Exerpt will not be for a post but for a page.

    I have a snippet text which will link to the complete page.
    With some PHP in my functions.php file I could get the excerpt panel in the edit page but can’t seem to get it working.

    Gary Darling

    (@garydarling)

    How about Custom Fields? If they don’t show on your Page editor you can activate them in the Screen Options dialog. Create a field called First Sentence, then copy in the text from the content.

    Thread Starter mvanboordt

    (@mvanboordt)

    Ok Garydarling that might be the idea I was looking for

    I’ll check it out and let you know

    Thnx

    Thread Starter mvanboordt

    (@mvanboordt)

    Ok I’ve made a custom post and placed the_meta in my script

    I’ve tried two different ways but they both don’t work.

    the_meta($meta_value, true);

    and

    the_meta();

    If I take a look at the sourcecode of the page I’ll get this:

    <ul class="post-meta"> </ul>

    So there is no content……

    What do I miss?

    Gary Darling

    (@garydarling)

    Here is what I used on a project, works fine:
    <?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Sidebar Text', true) ?>

    Thread Starter mvanboordt

    (@mvanboordt)

    Ah great thnx Gary.

    I fixed it like this because my content is on a childpage of the page where it should be shown.

    $short_text = get_post_meta($pageChild->ID, 'short_text', true);
    echo $short_text;

    Thnx for your help

    hi i have a customfield on my posts and i need to display the shorttexte on my homepage can use it like this?

    $short_text = get_post_meta($page ->ID, ‘short_text’, true);
    echo $short_text;

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