[Kevin LParticipant]

Hello,

Currently, the blog index shows the excerpts of the posts with the formatting tags stripped. Is there an easy way to keep the formatting instead?

Cheers,
Kevin.

[DarshanaModerator]

Hi Kevin,

You can do that by copying the following code to your functions.php file which is in the root of your theme folder. Before doing so, we’re highly recommending for you to create a child theme setup for your website so that your custom code will be remain separately.

Please check our child theme setup guide at (http://theme.co/x/member/kb/how-to-setup-child-themes/).

Once you activate the Child Theme, open the functions.php and add the following code.

function custom_wp_trim_excerpt($text) {
	$raw_excerpt = $text;
	if ( '' == $text ) {
	    //Retrieve the post content. 
	    $text = get_the_content('');
	 	$text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
	    $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
	    $text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);

	    // the code below sets the excerpt length to 55 words. You can adjust this number for your own blog.
	    $excerpt_length = apply_filters('excerpt_length', 55);

	    // the code below sets what appears at the end of the excerpt, in this case ...
	    $excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ' . '...');

	    $words = preg_split("/[\n\r\t ]+/", $text, $excerpt_length + 1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
	    if ( count($words) > $excerpt_length ) {
	        array_pop($words);
	        $text = implode(' ', $words);
	        $text = force_balance_tags( $text );
	        $text = $text . $excerpt_more;
	    } else {
	        $text = implode(' ', $words);
	    }

	}
	return apply_filters('wp_trim_excerpt', $text, $raw_excerpt);
}
remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'custom_wp_trim_excerpt');

Hope that helps.

[Kevin LParticipant]

Thanks! You guys are awesome!

[Paul RModerator]

You’re welcome Kevin. 🙂

[Shannon MParticipant]

I tried this, but the excerpt length doesn’t appear to be working. I’m in the Integrity stack. Any ideas? Thank you.

[Shannon MParticipant]

DISREGARD. I’m just a ditz. I had the “full” version selected in my WP reading settings. Switched to excerpt and it’s perfect. Sorry!

[RadModerator]

Okay cool! No problem 🙂 Cheers.

[edwinfuParticipant]

I used the code in my child theme which is fantastic. However, there is a line break before the ‘… Read More’ that I want to remove. Is there some way to do so?

Thank you

[Rue NelModerator]

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[ChristopherModerator]

Hi there,

Please update your code to :

function custom_wp_trim_excerpt($text) {
	$raw_excerpt = $text;
	if ( '' == $text ) {
	    //Retrieve the post content. 
	    $text = get_the_content('');
	 	$text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
	    $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
	    $text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);

	    // the code below sets the excerpt length to 55 words. You can adjust this number for your own blog.
	    $excerpt_length = apply_filters('excerpt_length', 55);

	    // the code below sets what appears at the end of the excerpt, in this case ...
	    $excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ' . ' ');

	    $words = preg_split("/[\n\r\t ]+/", $text, $excerpt_length + 1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
	    if ( count($words) > $excerpt_length ) {
	        array_pop($words);
	        $text = implode(' ', $words);
	        $text = force_balance_tags( $text );
	        $text = $text . $excerpt_more;
	    } else {
	        $text = implode(' ', $words);
	    }

	}
	return apply_filters('wp_trim_excerpt', $text, $raw_excerpt);
}
remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'custom_wp_trim_excerpt');
Hope that helps.

Hope it helps.

[edwinfuParticipant]

It didn’t work. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem like there was any change at all.

I’m looking for a solution that will remove the line break before the ‘…’. It should look as follows:

<category page post>…
<read more>

[RadModerator]

Hi there,

Please try this one,

function custom_wp_trim_excerpt($text) {
	$raw_excerpt = $text;
	if ( '' == $text ) {
	    //Retrieve the post content. 
	    $text = get_the_content('');
	 	$text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
	    $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
	    $text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);

	    // the code below sets the excerpt length to 55 words. You can adjust this number for your own blog.
	    $excerpt_length = apply_filters('excerpt_length', 55);

	    // the code below sets what appears at the end of the excerpt, in this case ...
	    $excerpt_more = '';

	    $words = preg_split("/[\n\r\t ]+/", $text, $excerpt_length + 1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
	    if ( count($words) > $excerpt_length ) {
	        array_pop($words);
	        $text = implode(' ', $words);
	        $text = force_balance_tags( $text );
	        $text = $text . $excerpt_more;
	    } else {
	        $text = implode(' ', $words);
	    }

	}
	return apply_filters('wp_trim_excerpt', $text, $raw_excerpt);
}
remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'custom_wp_trim_excerpt');

Completely removing the excerpt more dots.

Please clear your caches before testing.

Cheers!

[edwinfuParticipant]

I don’t want to completely remove the dots. I want to include the dots so that they appear without a line break after the cut-off at the excerpt.

[Rue NelModerator]

Hello There,

Do you want something like this?

Please remove the code you have added and use this code instead:

// Custom Read More string
// =============================================================================
  function x_excerpt_string( $more ) {
    
    $stack = x_get_stack();

    if ( $stack == 'integrity' ) {
      return ' ... <a href="' . get_permalink() . '" class="more-link">' . __( 'Read More', '__x__' ) . '</a>';
    } else if ( $stack == 'renew' ) {
      return ' ... <a href="' . get_permalink() . '" class="more-link">' . __( 'Read More', '__x__' ) . '</a>';
    } else if ( $stack == 'icon' ) {
      return ' ...';
    } else if ( $stack == 'ethos' ) {
      return ' ...';
    }

  }
  add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'x_excerpt_string' );
  // =============================================================================

We would loved to know if this has work for you. Thank you.

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