Comments on: Advanced Excerpt + PHP 4 problem (solved)

By: John P. Neumann

John P. Neumann — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:58:06 +0000

Hey Bas: First off great plugin and thank you for releasing it for all of us to use.

I’m having a bit of an issue with how it’s trimming certain tags though. I’m using Wordpress 3.0 with the newest version of your script. My webhost runs php 5.2.13. What’s happening is that wordpress now has a feature that makes it so that when you insert a smiley based character (ie, or etc) it converts it to an actual smiley face via an image. What’s happening is that advanced excerpt is cutting into that img tag even though I have it specified that I am excluding all formatting (I’ve tried excluding just the img tag exclusively as well). What I’m guessing is happening is that your script is running before wordpress has a chance to output the smiley. Is there a way to have your script check if smileys are enabled and then check to make sure that it’s not cutting them off in the end? I’m going to see if there’s a way for wordpress to output them beforehand, but I think that it’s going to be an issue no matter what. If nothing else, this will at least make you aware of the situation.

Thanks again for the great plugin!

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:40:16 +0000

Hi, the Advanced Excerpt plugin was recommended to me for using HMTL in my wordpress posts. It seems to work for many HTML tags except , and tags. Is there any way I can make sure these function in my posts. They are listed under tags_allowed within the plugin’s PHP file. Is tehre somewhere else I need to make an adjustment? I’m using wordpress 3.0.

Thank you!
-C

By: Jon DuVall

Jon DuVall — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:10:34 +0000

Hi Bas,

I figured out what the problem was. I needed to add the text in the excerpt box on the post page itself. Thanks again for your help

By: explorish

explorish — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:08:13 +0000

hi,
i like the plugin, would just like to have the featured post stay in the main index page as well. how can i do that?
thanks a lot in advance!

By: Jon DuVall

Jon DuVall — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:32:18 +0000

the_advanced_excerpt(‘length=450&use_words=1&no_custom=0′);

By: Jon DuVall

Jon DuVall — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:31:49 +0000

Sorry, Here is the code…

By: Jon DuVall

Jon DuVall — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:44:28 +0000

Hi Bas,

Thanks for the quick response. I would like to have the excerpt longer than the standard excerpt settings. Using the admin I unchecked the “No Custom Excerpts” option and I hard coded the following into my theme:

I do have other posts that are called using same template. Could this be the problem? Thanks again for your help, Jon

By: Bas

Bas — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:51:51 +0000

@ Jon: The text you can add to any post using the Excerpt field in the post editor is what's considered a custom excerpt. If you want a different excerpt for a certain post, you can create one there, but make sure the plugin doesn't ignore them (you can find this option on the plugin's settings page). If you want to have a longer excerpt for every post that is displayed on that particular location of you site, you should use the template tag provided by the plugin in your theme.

By: Jon DuVall

Jon DuVall — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:38:42 +0000

Hi Bas,

? for you… I have installed your plugin and the standard excerpt works great. I would, however like to make a certain excerpt longer than the others. I guess this would be considered a custom excerpt. I Have tried hardcoding the “advanced excerpt” method and for some reason it does not work. I am using version 2.9. Here is the page:

Speedtech Graphic Design Group

The post in question is the one located below the 3 column posts ( vector vs. bitmap). If you could give me ANY direction, I would GREATLY appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Jon

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:06:23 +0000

@Bas I was looking through google, and I found one possibility, that it could be caused via mod_cache, but couldnt find any other thing. I will look also through the theme code, if there is not a problem.

I will keep you posted, if you want.