Feb
16
2009

Excerpt and Content Word Limit WordPress Plugin

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screenshotAfter I posted Limiting the Number of Words in Your Excerpt or Content in WordPress I thought it would be a good idea to actually create a little plugin for those who aren’t actually code hackers.

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  1. Eduardo on February 25, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    Hello!
    Thanks for your plugin!
    I do not like working!
    I am using theme Aeros 2.0 (http://thebuckmaker.com/aerostwo) and tried to put the syntax “” In the 4 files to using php but do not work.
    Question: Your plugin only works with WordPress themes by defult?
    I am using version 2.7.1 of WP.
    Please could you tell me how do I get it working?
    Thank you very much!
    Greetings,
    Eduardo.

    • c.bavota on February 26, 2009 at 10:33 am

      Hey Eduardo,

      Not too sure what the issue might be. I will try troubleshooting the plugin and let you know.

  2. yojo! on February 27, 2009 at 5:24 am

    I think there is an issue with your magazine theme, because I get this error when installing this plugin:

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare excerpt() (previously declared in http://www.mysite.com\wp-content\themes\magazine-basic\functions.php:567) in http://www.mysite.com\wp-content\plugins\content-and-excerpt-word-limit\excerpt-content-word-limit.php on line 51

    • c.bavota on February 27, 2009 at 11:02 am

      You are encountering an issue with installing the Excerpt and Content Word Limit plugin on my Magazine Basic theme because I have a similar function embedded in that theme. You can go to the functions.php to line 566 and change this area:

      function excerpt($num) {

      to:

      function mb_excerpt($num) {

      Then in the functions/widget_feature.php file just change line 20 from:

      <?php excerpt('25'); ?>

      to:

      <?php mb_excerpt('25'); ?>

      And then installing the plugin will be no problem at all. I will update the theme and make this change as well to avoid further issues.

  3. yojo! on February 28, 2009 at 4:43 am

    Thanks, you are great!

  4. Paul on March 2, 2009 at 6:37 pm

    Hi C,
    I just installed your plugin and it works fine. One small problem for me is that the plugin only strips image tags – I often have posts also beginning with a blockquote and that doesn’t get stripped away.
    Any solutions?
    BTW I really like the content here – added to RSS and tweeted some of your posts already :-)

  5. nathan on March 17, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    Hey there – great idea for a plug in. It works‚Ķ sort of. If I add the code mentioned in the plug in, it strips out the sidebar . Something to do with ‘content’ instead of ‘the_content’?

    • c.bavota on March 18, 2009 at 11:55 am

      That is probably because you have some tags that aren’t closed due to where the excerpt cuts it off. I guess I would have to make the plugin strip the tags. Hmm.

  6. Danny on March 24, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    Hey i am trying to get this to work in my blog, I’m using the prosense grey template.

    Could you please give more detailed insturctions? I’ve installed the plugin, and I’ve tried the wp_content code in my index but it does not work!

    • Danny on March 24, 2009 at 3:39 pm

      edit: i got it working but using prosense grey… it messed up the template with using content, it doesn’t with excerpt. I take it its the image messing it up?

  7. Paul on June 26, 2009 at 6:02 pm

    I installed you comment length plugin and it works, but the comment is a funny font, sized approx 8px, and spaced double-spaced for the line leading.

    I can’t find any styling added to it except postarea and my CSS doesn’t have a .postarea class just .postarea p and .postarea ul and the like. When I create a .postarea class it will style the comment output, but it messes up the comment heading which is an .

    Got any ideas? I looked for styling in the php file in your plugin but could only find one for the read more link. I tried creating styling for the output but it broke the plugin.

    Any ideas about why this is and what to do?

  8. madbadcat on July 9, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    Is it possible to get the plugin to close a tag or strip a tag? if the content has a bold word where it cuts off the rest fo the front page becomes bold…

    • c.bavota on July 11, 2009 at 4:00 pm

      I think a function to check for unclosed tags is possible but would be quite complex due to the number of tags available. If only there was a <close all tags> type of tag.

  9. ato on July 25, 2009 at 9:29 am

    i have a problem, the plugin work well but.. i am using the_content(’80′) but all image go at the start of post.. i think this is not normal, how can i fix it?

  10. floris on August 7, 2009 at 9:42 am

    how can i set up the plugin to NOT strip tags. the only thing i want is to limit the words. nothing else. not stripping paragraphs, tags, etcera

  11. Ken on August 17, 2009 at 11:58 pm

    Hi,

    I have just tried downloading your plugin but the links broken, it is returning a file not found error??

    Thanks,

    Ken

    • c.bavota on August 18, 2009 at 12:10 am

      The link should take you to the wordpress.org site to download the plugin.

  12. Ken on August 18, 2009 at 7:15 am

    Hi,

    Yes, it is the link on the WP site that doesn’t seem to work, it returns file not found?

    Do you have a copy of the plugin anywhere else so I can download it, or maybe you can forward a copy to me at [email protected]

    Ken

  13. Pete on August 22, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    can you make this so it does NOT include the words from an image caption text… i only want the content text, not the image caption as well…

    thanks

    • c.bavota on August 24, 2009 at 11:08 am

      That is possible and I will take it into consideration for the next version.

    • tudoquemegustaeillegal on March 2, 2010 at 9:29 am

      Hi, useful function … this worked 4 me

          $output = preg_replace ("/\[caption(.*)\[\/caption\]/", "", $theContent);

      same locale as jonah :)

  14. Bruno on August 27, 2009 at 6:56 am

    Hi from Madrid,
    nice plugin but isn’t it possible to desactive in options the more link?

  15. Jim on August 28, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    Hi,
    I like your plug-in but would like “Read More” to hyperlink to the feed items original link, not to the permalink.

    YAAB.Autoblogger does this nicely, but not with your plug-in active. Is there a way for me to do this? Thank you.

    • c.bavota on August 31, 2009 at 10:44 am

      Hey Jim,

      You would need to do a bit of hacking to make that work. I assume autoblogger creates a custom field with the original link so you would just need to crack open my plugin file and replace the permalink code with a call to the custom field.

  16. Jim on September 1, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    Thank you. I will try that.

  17. Jonah on September 11, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    Hi all, thanks for the great plugin! I came up with a quick solution that strips the tags from the content:

    Place this after line 58 in excerpt-content-word-limit.php:

    $output = str_replace(']]&gt;', ']]&gt;', $output);
$output = strip_tags($output);

    It should strip any formatting automatically.

    Cheers,
    Jonah

    • Zeal Murapa on October 20, 2009 at 10:44 am

      Thanks dude! The author should have known better

    • Jonny Wood on July 15, 2010 at 8:00 am

      This plugin is great but suffers one major problem which people here have already picked up on.

      The inability to close tags.
      I added these lines from Jonah but also changed the following (line 48) from:

      $readmore = '<a href="'.$link.'" rel="nofollow">'.$readmore.'</a>';

      to:

      $readmore = '<a href="'.$link.'" rel="nofollow">'.$readmore.'</a>';

      This worked for me but if your excerpt is cut off whilst in a different tag (other than ) you’re going to have problems.

      PLEASE, PLEASE update this plugin to automatically close all tags, thus validating the markup.

      I’m more designer than coder but I found this article which could be of use: http://www.wplancer.com/how-to-limit-content-in-wordpress/

    • c.bavota on July 15, 2010 at 3:15 pm

      @Jonny Wood,

      Here is a cool PHP snipped to close all tags that I will implement into the plugin once I have a chance to update it.

  18. Bj??rn on October 13, 2009 at 5:25 pm 
    <?php echo strip_tags(get_the_excerpt(), '<a><strong>'); ?>

    How can I change this code to make it work? I always get an error..

    • c.bavota on October 15, 2009 at 9:28 am

      What error?

  19. George on December 30, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    Hi, just exactly how do I change the excerpt word limit to, say, 80, for example? I’m using Magazine Basic. Thanks!

  20. Tom on January 3, 2010 at 7:31 pm

    Hi

    Nice work , But it’s don’t work with my rss feed post ..

    my blog get update via rss feed and the post comes to my blog in full text and i want to limit them .. can U help me please ?

    Thanks

  21. Mostafa on January 4, 2010 at 11:17 am

    go west go east you are the best.
    :D

  22. Tom on January 6, 2010 at 3:32 pm

    Hi Again

    I fix the problem Now all my post limited , But the photo of my post not shown up in the front page , when i click redmore i can see the photo… is there any wat to show up the photo?

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  24. Ciprian on January 11, 2010 at 10:30 pm

    There is a small issue. For instance if i choose to display 30 words in CONTENT and the content finishes with then all the page is messed up, all showing in bold… Could you please add some sort of exclusion tags for , , , , etc… I mean if they are opened somewhere in the content they must be automatically closed in the end no matter what.

    Thanks a ton,
    Ciprian

    • c.bavota on January 12, 2010 at 3:49 pm

      Try putting the code between <pre lang=”php”></pre> or else it won’t come through.

  25. Robert on January 20, 2010 at 1:49 pm

    Hi…

    It works, but the pictures Of my Post do not show … :(

    Is there anyone can fix it ? I really need This..

    Thanks

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