How can I show page excerpts previews?

  • I want to create a page where I show page excerpts
    What’s the best way of doing this?
    I’ve googled this and also looked at some plugins
    Just looking for some recommendations on the best and most popular way

    ALSO: what’s the best way to show a preview? For example, let’s say I want to show the first 100 characters – what would be the best way to do this?

    Would it be for example to just use some PHP string manipulation functions to show the first 100 characters?
    But then, I would imagine, I need some extra functions that account for image or other objects like Flash which may be within the first 100 characters
    (Are there any plugins that show previews?)

    Thanks!

    Omar

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  • Make sure your theme displays the_excerpt rather than the_content in the loop code for whichever theme file is displaying the page.

    Try the Excerpt box in admin where you create or edit a post. I think it displays whatever you put in there.

    Thread Starter OM2

    (@om2)

    thanks for the reply
    for the second part of my question, i purposely didn’t want to display the excerpt – i want to kust give a preview of the actual post/page

    i knew i could do as u suggested… i was just looking for the best way to show the first 100 characters…

    let me know what u think
    thanks

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