Forgot to mention, no special installation required, just the usual upload and activate.
c6 Excerpts: Advanced Excerpts for Wordpress
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Basically, this plugin gives you 3 things: The ability to easily add your excerpts from within the content editor, whether that’s an external posting tool or the built in editor in Wordpress. Second, the ability to turn off the automatic paragraph generation (like the no-excerpt-p plugin), and last the option to turn off “texturization” of the excerpt.
You can use multi-paragraph excerpts, and with the auto-paragraphing and texturization turned off, you can include your own HTML formatting as you see fit. You can also have it embedded automatically in your template. I do this with mine, so that I can create divs for movies embedded in the excerpts and paragraph tags for regular text excerpts manually.
The excerpt is created by placing tags surrounding the excerpt text anywhere in the post. The tags are <excerpt> and </excerpt> but with square brackets, and surround your text. They can include newlines and HTML code. You have the option of hiding the entire excerpt block from regular view, or just hiding the tags and viewing it inline. The latter option means you could just surround your first one or two paragraphs with the tags and have them automatically excerpted, but still included in the post, effectively replacing the <—more—> tag.
The options panel is located under the Plugins menu. There are only 3 options, so you won’t get confused ;-).
The reason for this plugin, as I mentioned in my last post, is that the more tag is now cutting off RSS feeds at the more line, and all of my feeds have become partial feeds against my will. I like to keep my front page tidy and my RSS feeds full, and I’ve lost the best of both worlds. So this plugin is built for me, but I hope it will help out people in a similar situation.
I’m always open to bug reports, complaints and flower deliveries.
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01.24.07 / 11pm
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01.25.07 / 6am
The download link is broken for me - when I click on it I just get a page of messy characters. Tested in Safari 2 and Firefox 2 on OS X 10.4.8.
Can’t wait to try it out though - editing excerpts in Textmate is yet another prayer answered :) -
01.25.07 / 7am
Got it, sorry about that. Try it again now, I think it just wasn’t liking the php.zip extension.
Please let me know how it works for you!
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01.25.07 / 8am
It works beautifully - thank you. Does exactly what I was expecting, and combined with a little ‘excerpt’ snippet in Textmate is really quite neat.
Thanks again :) -
01.26.07 / 7pm
When I switched from the_content to the_excerpt I miss the link to the permalink post. I want the excerpt and then a link that say More ->
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01.26.07 / 7pm
I manually add the link beneath the excerpt in the template. Use the_excerpt, and then use the_permalink and the_title to generate a link below it (while still inside that instance of the loop). Make sense?
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01.26.07 / 9pm
Yup. This is what I did. It works.
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01.27.07 / 6pm
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03.07.07 / 12am
Is there any way to display allowed tags like the_excerpt_reloaded?
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03.07.07 / 4am
If you turn off the texturizer, it will allow all tags, but there’s currently not a mechanism to control which tags are stripped and not stripped. I could possibly add this.
I was considering reworking this plugin soon anyway, so that may be on my list of things to add.
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03.07.07 / 7am
Thanks, Brett. I turned the texturizer off (i.e. set it to FALSE - correct?), but I still don’t get any tags.
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03.07.07 / 8am
The texturizer option should be set to true to enable tags. I have mine set to disable the auto paragraph tags as well (TRUE) and then I manually insert the paragraph tags in my excerpts. It’s a little more complicated, but allows me to use the excerpts for movie thumbnails in divs without creating invalid XHTML. I’ll try to make it a little more advanced this time around, and provide a few more options.
One problem is it inserts blank space when you include the excerpt in the post but hide the tags, so I need to fix that as well.
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04.15.07 / 12pm
Thank you for the plugin. It works GREAT!!! =)
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09.28.07 / 4pm
Ok, I think full feeds are working now!…
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12.19.07 / 3pm
brett, sorry for being thick, but I haven’t been able to find out what comment system you’re using … love the site, so didn’t mind one little bit spidering it, but came up empty. I’m guessing it’s part of one of your plugins but can’t tell which.
TIA for info —bentrem
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12.20.07 / 9am
It’s the default WP comment system with Ronalfy’s WP Ajax Edit Comment over the top of it.
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02.17.08 / 1am
Thanks from me to Ann for this. @brett, notification for your reply musta got lost in snow-storm/blizzard heh.
K; wunnerful. TU.
Got it. raproject.com/ajax-edit-commentsCU on WP-Hack. —bentrem
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06.11.08 / 12am
brett.. i want to ask you personally if you could help me. i have a sidebar, that loads 9 posts from a featured directory, and shows the thumbnails. but these images are not uploaded to the file server, they are hosted images… i can get it to work to show the images if i manually input each path into the “excerpt” field under my post, like so img src=”http://www.apple.com/apple.gif” alt=”apple” (i remove the formatting, so it dont mess up the comment)
BUT!, i post many articles with pictures, i do not want to go into the excerpt field and paste the .jpg path all the time. and the only way for those 9 pots to display an image is if it can find that .jpg path in the excerpt field…
HOW! can i write a command in the post section that will automatically put whatever is between that command into the “excerpt” field, so i dont need to do it manually all the time..
example within the post section:
Hello, this is a picture of an apple
[excerpt]
img src=”http://www.apple.com/apple.gif” alt=”apple”
[/excerpt]and once i hit Publish, it puts “img src=”http://www.apple.com/apple.gif” alt=”apple”” directly into that excerpt field.. thus, my 9 featured post will find the value and display the image..
basically, i already have a tool to put the required tag like [excerpt] and [/excerpt] infront and behind any image inside the post automatically. so it will all be very easy and automatically done, if only i can find a command that will put it into the excerpt field… sorry if it dont make any sense…
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06.11.08 / 12am
brett.. i want to ask you personally if you could help me. i have a sidebar, that loads 9 posts from a featured directory, and shows the thumbnails. but these images are not uploaded to the file server, they are hosted images… i can get it to work to show the images if i manually input each path into the “excerpt” field under my post, like so “”
BUT!, i post many articles with pictures, i do not want to go into the excerpt field and paste the .jpg path all the time. and the only way for those 9 pots to display an image is if it can find that .jpg path in the excerpt field…
HOW! can i write a command in the post section that will automatically put whatever is between that command into the “excerpt” field, so i dont need to do it manually all the time..
example withing the post section:
Hello, this is a picture of an apple
[excerpt]
“”
[/excerpt]and once i hit Publish, it puts “” directly into that excerpt field.. thus, my 9 featured post will find the value and display the image..
basically, i already have a tool to put the required tag like [excerpt] and [/excerpt] infront and behind any image inside the post automatically. so it will all be very easy and automatically done, if only i can find a command that will put it into the excerpt field… sorry if it dont make any sense…
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