Description
Easy Excerpt is a simple plugin that lets you modify your WordPress excerpt.
There are three things you can modify:
- Length of excerpt (default 55 words)
- Ending of excerpt (default [...])
- Link to rest of the article (default there is no link)
For those of you that don’t want a plugin for doing this, there is a text file with the code snippets that you can put in your themes functions.php instead.
WordPress Easy Excerpt
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Go to Easy Excerpt on WordPress.org to read more about the plugin or download Easy Excerpt directly.
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Have you any thoughts about including “featured image” as an option in Easy excerpt?
Hi Kristian,
No, I haven’t thought about that but it might be a good feature to add.
I will investigate on how to get that to work nicely.
Hopefully you find a solution!
I think the option could be very useful for e.g. photoblogs who geotag their posts. Google uses in GeoRSS-flows the excerpt for the information which is shown in the info windows on Google maps.
Apologies for the site — it’s still under heavy construction. But as you can see I’ve got Easy Excerpt working!
…except for one thing. I can’t apply the article permalink to the custom text. I’ve tried putting the
tag into the “link” field and I’ve also tried< a href= "">Continuein the more field. What am I doing wrong?Hi Catherine,
If I understand your question correctly you want the link to be added when you use a manual excerpt?
That doesn’t work in release 0.1.0 but I will release a new version with that function as soon as possible.
Hi Catherine,
I have updated Easy Excerpt so that there is a link for read more on the manual excepts as well.
Error occurs when processing the auto-generated exerpts:
Notice: Undefined variable: excerpt_more_link in /home/k/kroki/blog/public_html/plugins/easy-excerpt/easy-excerpt.php on line 123
To resolve this problem, I replaced the code on lines 120-123:
if( has_excerpt() ) {$excerpt_more_link = ' manual ' . $link . '';
}
return $more. $excerpt_more_link;
with:
if( has_excerpt() ) {$more .= ' manual ' . $link . '';
}
return $more. $excerpt_more_link;
Sorry for formatting, RIGHT code is replaced:
if( has_excerpt() ) {
$excerpt_more_link = \’ \\’ . $link . \’\\’;
}
return $more. $excerpt_more_link;
with:
if( has_excerpt() ) {
$more .= ‘ \\’ . $link . \’\\’;
}
return $more;
Final solution here http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-easy-excerpt-problems-with-auto-generated-exerpts?replies=1#post-1842887
Hi Roues,
Thanks for your input. I really appreciate it!
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