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Thanks Tom that works perfectly.
This is the code I ended up with for anyone with the same problem. Add as a code snippet and set a custom field on your post page with the name ‘wpsp_excerpt’ and the value as your custom excerpt and it will display for WP Show Posts. If nothing is set it will default to the excerpt length you have set.
if ( ! function_exists( 'wpsp_excerpt' ) ) { function wpsp_excerpt( $excerpt_length ) { global $post; if ( get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), $key = 'wpsp_excerpt', $single = true ) ) { $content = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), $key = 'wpsp_excerpt', $single = true ); } else { $content = wp_trim_words( get_the_content(), $excerpt_length, apply_filters( 'wpsp_ellipses', '...' ) ); } // Strip shortcodes from our content $content = strip_shortcodes( $content ); // Strip URLs from our excerpt (oembeds etc..) $content = preg_replace( '~http(s)?://[^\s]*~i', '', $content ); // Return our content echo $content; } }To my great surprise, this worked! (I have no idea if this is good code or not, but seems to be working as I want!)
function wpsp_excerpt( ) { global $post; $content = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), $key = 'wpsp_excerpt', $single = true ); echo $content; }I had to edit the functions.php file though, as it kept returning fatal error cannot redefine function when I added it to Code Snippets. Is there another way around this so that I can add the fix in Code Snippets instead of editing plugin files?
I’ve been trying to figure out how I might solve this. I’ve added a custom field to one of my posts page with the key being wpsp_excerpt and the value being what I want the excerpt to be. I’ve been trying to figure out how to change the wpsp_excerpt( $excerpt_length ) so that it would call the custom field key and return the value for use as the excerpt for each post, but I don’t know php at all and keep breaking my site!
Is that something that you could do with a custom code snippet? I’m using the WP Code Snippets plugin.
Cheers,
AdamHi Tom, thanks 🙂
I’ve tried that but the custom excerpt length doesn’t work when a manual excerpt has been set on the post page as far as I can tell? It just uses the manual excerpt.
Even then, it would leave the WP Show Posts excerpt at a word length that will leave the excerpt ending at mid sentence most of the time, and that I have no control over unless I edit the content of the post to suit the excerpt. Would it be possible to have a WP Show Posts excerpt option box on each post page, that defined a specific custom excerpt for displaying with WP Show Posts?
Well after all that I solved my responsive columns by setting the WP Show posts columns to 2 and adding:
@media only screen and (min-width: 800px) { .masonry-brick { width: 33.3%; } }I’m still really struggling to figure out a way to have different excerpts on WP Show Posts and the blog page though.
