seanjacob

Haha nice one! No problem.

Without the truncating –

function get_excerpt($count){
  $permalink = get_permalink($post->ID);
  $excerpt = get_the_content();
  $excerpt = strip_tags($excerpt);
  $excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, $count);
  $excerpt = $excerpt.'... <a href="'.$permalink.'">more</a>';
  return $excerpt;
}

Use this function if you’re planning on using it more than once with a different amount of characters.

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;
}

Call the function plus the amount of characters –

<?php echo get_excerpt(125); ?>

$permalink = get_permalink($post->ID);

Try adding this to the top of the function.

Thank you Edd! The is exactly what I was looking for, there should be a detailed list for what every type does.

I ended up doing it the long way, let me if you find better.

<?php
      $the_cat = get_the_category();
      $cat_id = $the_cat[0]->cat_ID;
      $c = 0;
      $the_query = new WP_Query(array('post__not_in' => array($id), 'orderby' => 'rand', 'posts_per_page' => 2, 'tag' => 'Omega,Seamaster'));
      if( have_posts() ) : while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post();
    ?>
      <div class="featured-article">
        <img src="<?php echo wp_get_attachment_url(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'banner', true)); ?>" />
        <h3 class="featured-article-title"><?php the_title() ?></h3>
        <h4 class="featured-article-details"><?php if(get_the_author_id() != 5) { ?>written by <?php the_author(); ?> - <?php } else { ?>Posted <?php } ?><?php the_time('jS M Y'); ?></h4>
        <?php echo get_excerpt(50); ?>
        <?php $c++ ?>
        <?php $last_post = $post->ID; ?>
      </div>
    <?php endwhile; wp_reset_postdata(); endif; ?>

    <?php
      $i = 2-$c;
      if ($i > 0){ $the_query = new WP_Query(array('category__in' => $cat_id, 'post__not_in' => array($id, $last_post), 'orderby' => 'rand', 'posts_per_page' => $i));
      if( have_posts() ) : while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post();
    ?>
      <div class="featured-article">
        <img src="<?php echo wp_get_attachment_url(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'banner', true)); ?>" />
        <h3 class="featured-article-title"><?php the_title() ?></h3>
        <h4 class="featured-article-details"><?php if(get_the_author_id() != 5) { ?>written by <?php the_author(); ?> - <?php } else { ?>Posted <?php } ?><?php the_time('jS M Y'); ?></h4>
        <?php echo get_excerpt(50); ?>
      </div>
    <?php endwhile; wp_reset_postdata(); endif; ?>
    <?php } ?>

$excerpt = $excerpt.'... <a href="'.$permalink.'">more</a>';

Replace this line in my code with –

$excerpt = '<p>'.$excerpt.'... <a href="'.$permalink.'">more</a></p>';

Glad you found a solution. My code doesn’t truncate the last word either and with my problem I needed it to be by characters not words.

In functions.php add

function get_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;
}

Change the value 40 to how many characters you want to display. And also ‘more’ to what text you want to display.

Then call your function in index.php or where ever your planning on getting your posts.

<?php echo get_excerpt(); ?>

Whoops should have got back to this. I have now solved the issue. Thank you esmi.

Yes deactivating all the plugins is the first step I always take but as the problem randomly happens its hard to test.

But I eventually figured out it was my report comment plugin of course!

Is this going to be a update to fix this problem? I don’t even have anything in my function to get my custom fields and I am having the same problem…

likewise.

shoot my bad! It will not work for existing posts. Sorry I am a noob to your superb plugin.

I am also trying to get a default/value in my text field but doesn’t seem to be working for me am I doing anything wrong? Also should the default appear in the field or be blank but still contains the value.

[summary_title]
label = Summary title
type = text
default = In summary
output = true

This is a good article.

https://www.kevinleary.net/advanced-content-management-wordpress-custom-field-templates/