Comments on: Advanced Excerpt plugin for WordPress

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:44:31 +0000

Is this plugin is good for adding extra text at the end of each post? Do you have an example? Thanks.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:39:59 +0000

This is potentially a great plugin, but it really does need some work, either on the code end or on the documentation.

With a little work you could see this plugin blowing up.

By: Pentti Aitta

Pentti Aitta — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:56:38 +0000

With some of my posts i get the error:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/penttiai/public_html/devblog/wp-content/plugins/advanced-excerpt/advanced-excerpt.php on line 116

or line 118 or similar.

The problem seems to be related to the counting of characters and not counting the html entities, but i can’t see what could be wrong with my posts.

For example this post breaks the plugin: http://www.penttiaitta.com/devblog/2008/05/09/hiroshima/ so i have crafted a custom excerpt for that one on this page: http://www.penttiaitta.com/devblog/blogi/page/8/

But i guess there should be some simple solution for this? Or could it just be some sort of problem with the new versions of worpress? (I have v. 2.6 on my blog)

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:05:31 +0000

Hi bas,

I am trying to use the exceprt code in my index.php but it doesn’t work for me.

Here is the code I have in it:
filter(the_content(), 20, 1, 'read more', null) ?>

By: alvinwong

alvinwong — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:24:40 +0000

Li-An,

I also do not having any idea which other template/s I need to change in order to rectify these problems. Additionally, can I re-post the same post contents after deleting the earlier ones (similar posts) and by doing so, would my website be penalized by search engines?

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Thank you

By: alvinwong

alvinwong — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:58:02 +0000

Li-An

Thanks for the reply but I, as informed, do not have any idea how o go about. I had gone into Design—->Theme Editor—>Theme Files and am now lost as to what I need to amend since I don’t have knowledge about html.

Please advise me “what” to change in the Theme Files.

Appreciate your help, Li-An.

Thank you

By: Li-An

Li-An — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:28:42 +0000

Alvinwong: you have to look in your theme files and search for and replace with . Don’t remember to backup the files before making any change et test on one file to see if it works.

Bas: as I know, the plugin works great with WP 2.6
But I NEED a saving of the configuration of the plugin. It’s boring to configure everything each time you disable the plugin

By: alvinwong

alvinwong — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:09:41 +0000

Hi Bas,

I am a newbie and do not understand php at all. I have installed your advanced excerpt plugin, activated it and it does not seem to work as all my post seem to have the entire content still listed.

I have also read through all the above forum including your replies to some who have the same problem as mine.

I am very sorry. I do not understand how to get it right because I do not get to know what is being taught here by you especially the php lingo.

Kindly teach me step by step. Thanks

By: THE FIXER

THE FIXER — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:48:44 +0000

and yes.. remember to print the function !!!

By: THE FIXER

THE FIXER — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:46:45 +0000

haha, fuck me… It was just that lack of instructions that made me go nuts with this script.

Sorry everybode.. Admin please remove my shitty comments.

What i realized was that you literally put a non assigned variable $text in the function. What is does then is use the original get_the_content() function to fetch the content.

All this mess could have been avoided with proper faq, or atleast thats my excuse ;D

this is borrowed from the original FAQ “$text is the full text of whatever you need an excerpt of”. NOW if something then that is very very confusing, because it creates an illusion that you need to pass some data to the function.

Conclusion: don’t try to pass any data to the function ie. the_content, $post->post_content …