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.

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.

Thank you

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