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I finally got it….I was on the wrong track…I replaced:

<?php the_content(__(‘Continue Reading »’)); ?>

with….

<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(); ?>

Now why didn’t the docs for that plugin just say that? ??

This has become frustrating….here is the code from my index.php page. Can someone tell me what to paste where to make this plugin work?? I have set up the string <?php the_excerpt_reloaded(); ?> with and without explicit options, and nothing happens when I put it inside the Loop below. Maybe I have it in the wrong place.

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php $post = $posts[0]; // Thanks Kubrick for this code ?>
<?php if (is_category()) { ?>
<h2><?php _e(‘Archive for’); ?> <?php echo single_cat_title(); ?></h2>
<?php } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
<h2><?php _e(‘Archive for’); ?> <?php the_time(‘F j, Y’); ?></h2>
<?php } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
<h2><?php _e(‘Archive for’); ?> <?php the_time(‘F, Y’); ?></h2>
<?php } elseif (is_year()) { ?>
<h2><?php _e(‘Archive for’); ?> <?php the_time(‘Y’); ?></h2>
<?php } elseif (is_author()) { ?>
<h2><?php _e(‘Author Archive’); ?></h2>
<?php } elseif (is_search()) { ?>
<h2><?php _e(‘Search Results’); ?></h2>
<?php } ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class=”post”>
<h2 class=”postheader” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div class=”meta”><img align=”right” src=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/postheaderend.gif” width=”22″ height=”22″ style=”margin: -4px 0 0 0″ alt=”” /><?php _e(“Posted in”); ?> <?php the_category(‘,’) ?> by <?php the_author() ?> on <?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?> <?php edit_post_link(__(‘Edit This’)); ?></div>
<div class=”entry”>
<?php if (is_search()) { ?>

<?php the_excerpt() ?>
<?php } else { ?>
<?php the_content(__(‘Continue Reading »’)); ?>
<?php } ?>
</div>

<div class=”meta2″><div style=”float:left”>” rel=”bookmark” title=”<?php _e(‘Permanent link to’); ?> <?php the_title(); ?>” class=”permalink”><?php _e(‘Permalink’); ?> | <?php comments_popup_link(__(‘Comments’), __(‘Comments (1)’), __(‘Comments (%)’), ‘commentslink’, __(‘Comments off’)); ?></div></div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php posts_nav_link(”, __(”), __(‘« Previous entries’)); ?>
<?php posts_nav_link(‘ · ‘, __(”), __(”)); ?>
<?php posts_nav_link(”, __(‘Next entries »’), __(”)); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<h2><?php _e(‘Not Found’); ?></h2>
<p><?php _e(‘Sorry, but no posts matched your criteria.’); ?></p>
<h3><?php _e(‘Search’); ?></h3>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/searchform.php’); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Well, it should show a 120 word snippet by default with that line I changed. Here is what the instructions show:

<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(); ?>

Displays defaults: 120 word excerpt; allow anchor (<a>) tag; ‘excerpt’ as filter type, use “(more…)” as more link if excerpt less than content; fake content as excerpt unless post has an excerpt.

But nothing happens…..

Reading down further, I put this string:

<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(); ?>

In place of the one that was there:

<?php the_excerpt() ?>

This should work and display using the default values, but nothing has changed. I have refreshed the browser, everything. The plugin is activated. Still missing something?

Do I replace this line in the index template:

<?php the_excerpt() ?>

with this one?

<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(excerpt_length, ‘allowedtags’, ‘filter_type’, use_more_link, ‘more_link_text’, force_more_link, fakeit, fix_tags); ?>

I hope I am making progress here….

Do you just go to the plugin editor and make those changes then? I must be missing something, because my blog’s home page is not showing snippets of any kind even with this plugin activated.

I finally downloaded and installed “the excerpt reloaded”. Now the problem is, I can’t find any information on how to use it. Unlike other plugins I’ve installed and activated in WP, this one doesn’t show a link anywhere in the control panel that I can find.

How do you work with this one?

Thanks!

I have Spam Karma 2 installed. How can you tell the difference between trackbacks and comments? I got an email from the system that said someone had posted a comment.

Thanks…so this has to be done for each individual post, and there is no way to do a universal setting that applies to all?

I worked around the problem with advice (below) from a previous post. I still don’t know why I could not make this change in the HTML popup box.

Here is the previous advice I found, that worked for me:

I’m not sure about your problem as I haven’t had it occur, but you can turn the rich text editing off by going to the “users” tab –> and at the very bottom of the page uncheck the “Use the visual rich editor when writing”. This will give you full html control, along with the standard editing buttons.

Yes, the rest of my site is html outside of WP. I think I understand now, I will just let it take care of the sitemap for WP.

Is anyone using Arne’s Sitemap Generator? On his site he says to post here for help with it.

I wrote to MSN but they just referred me to another department. Not sure I’ll ever get an answer.

Thanks Moshu. Following your link to pingomatic.com, I see a page that requires you to check off what services you want to ping. Does WordPress cause pingomatic to automatically ping all of those?

Yes, what both of you posted has helped. I think what I need to do is have three WordPress installations and blogs on my site, so I can have three distinctly separate blog topics.