Comments on: Page Excerpt

By: jeremy.massel

jeremy.massel — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:14:50 +0000

Amy, it’s likely that your theme isn’t using the_excerpt().

I’d check out your theme files, index.php, archive.php, and category.php would be a good start. If you can find the_content() and replace it with the_excerpt(), you’ll probably be off to a good start!

The excerpt box being there won’t help, if WordPress isn’t being told to display it anywhere

Hope that helps!

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:46:35 +0000

Thank you for replying Jeremy!
Sorry for my ignorance…but how/where do I call “the_excerpt()”? I am using WP 3.0…but it should be working as I see the excerpt box there, shouldn’t it?

By: jeremy.massel

jeremy.massel — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:46:53 +0000

Amy, are you using WP 3.0? I haven’t tested the excerpt on it yet, so I’m not sure if it works.

In your theme, are you calling “the_content()” or “the_excerpt()”? You need to call the excerpt method, or else you won’t get that text. Hope that helps!

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:43:34 +0000

I can’t seem to get this to work. I installed the plugin and the excerpt box is now showing, but when I enter text in the excerpt…it doesn’t do anything. The whole post still shows. Any idea what the problem could be?

By: Netke

Netke — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:09:43 +0000

My bad… I checked out again and it’s working just fine. :)

By: Netke

Netke — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:05:00 +0000

For some reasons on my two WP sites this plugin doesn’t work. Both of them are version 2.9.1 and when I activate plugin, nothing happens. Do I have to configure something else?

By: brent

brent — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:20:55 +0000

great plugin – thanks

By: Flow

Flow — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:09:58 +0000

First off, thanks for this great Plugin!
But I got one question:
How can I customize the length of the shown page excerpt without having to force my customer to always test if the length of the excerpt fits the size of the frontend box?
Altering the general excerpt length by editing the functions.php (as you can see below) doesn’t seem to work.
[code]
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');
function my_excerpt_length($length) {
return 20; }
[/code]

Thanks in advance!