Comments on: Wordpress plugin: the excerpt re-reloaded

By: Fábio ZC

Fábio ZC — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:38:41 +0000

Hey! First of all.. thanks for this plugin!

So.. i need to make a Page excerpts (I do with “Page Excerpt” plugin) with the excerpt re-reloaded plugin..

somebody can help me?

Thanks a lot

By: Marty Thornley

Marty Thornley — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:44:20 +0000

Hey Luca,

I have used this plugin on several sites but have occasionally been frustrated by what happens when only an image or only a video appears, returning an essentially empty excerpt.

So I wrote a companion function to get the output rather than automatically echo it. I called it get_the_excerpt_rereloaded() – it uses all of your same ideas but returns the output so I can test it and not display anything if it is empty.

I also noticed that essentially empty $output variables were actually a long string of spaces, so adding a trim statement emptied out any empty excerpts allowing me to test for whether it was empty.

I am just using it as a standalone plugin right now, but would love to send you the code if you want to check it out and maybe incorporate into the next version.

Thanks for the great plugin!

Marty

By: Pierre

Pierre — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:12:20 +0000

When I use [caption] in the beginning of a post (my post start with an image to the left of the text), the plugin won't filter that tag away: This is visible in the excerpt on my page, before the rest of the text: [caption id="attachment_279" align="alignleft" width="139" caption="Glenn Svarts"][/caption] I'm guessing that something is missing in this line to be able to hide the [caption]-tag/content? $text = preg_replace('/\[.*\]/', '', strip_tags($post->post_content, $allowed_tags));

By: MD

MD — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:12:43 +0000

Hi!

I’ve changed this line of the plugin:

$text = preg_replace(‘/\[.*\]/’, ”, strip_tags($post->post_excerpt, $allowed_tags));

Now instead of showing the content of the post, the plugin is showing the excerpt. The only problem is that when a post does not have an excerpt added manually, the plugin does not try to get the content.

I think that the perfect behaviour would be:
- check if there is excerpt, and if it is not blank, show the excerpt.
- if there is no excerpt, show the_content.

What do you think?

By: Henk

Henk — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:58:51 +0000

No luck:
php the_excerpt_rereloaded(‘11′,’—»»’,'no’,'plain’,'no’);

By: Henk

Henk — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:57:51 +0000

Sorry, can’t edit, so here goes again:
I upgraded my testsite to WP2.8.6 and using Advanced Title for images killed my read more link (it was visible but not linked). I solved that by letting out the because the Advanced Title apparently created a starting without closing it. So now I use:
“
(try to use backticks now fo showing code)
and that works good on WP 2.8.6
NB that is the first ‘no’ behind the raquo statement.
Nb2 the ‘plain’ still succeeds in having the –>> on the same line instead of a new line, good.

By: Henk

Henk — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:56:04 +0000

I upgraded my testsite to WP2.8.6 and using Advanced Title for images killed my read more link (it was visible but not linked). I solved that by letting out the “a” tag because the Advanced Title apparently created a starting “a” without closing it. So now I use

and that works good on WP 2.8.6

NB that is the first ‘no’ behind the raquo statement.
Nb2 the ‘plain’ still succeeds in having the –>> on the same line instead of a new line, good.

By: The Excerpt re-Reloaded | Developing Argyll Communities

The Excerpt re-Reloaded | Developing Argyll Communities — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:29:47 +0000

[...] of the default Argyll Communities theme by replacing the normal ‘the_excerpt’ tag by Luca Biagini’s ‘the_excerpt_rereloaded’. This allows us to control the appearance of the excerpted [...]

By: Luca

Luca — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:44:28 +0000

@Patrick
I’m sorry, I’ve got really no experience with chinese, I don’t absolutely know how to help

@zamaan
Glad my plugin may help you, but unfortunately the object tag is not supported, and I don’t know the plugin you mentioned.

By: zamaan

zamaan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:41:24 +0000

really really sorry to bump. the plugin now works really well on my wp 8.5. i only have one issue now. the image fit plugin does not work. coz it raps the resized image in ‘p’ tag. so until i find a fix for that, i just sticked to my old excerpt plugin (which does not have a facility to customized allowed tags).

pls try to fix this p tag issue.