How to bend the HTML output if a custom excerpt is pulled from an advanced custom field plugins WYSIWYG field

Question

I've a custom excerpt function to get an excerpt from an advanced custom fields WYSIWYG field. The function inside the functions.php looks like:

function custom_field_excerpt($title) {
    global $post;
    $text = get_field($title);
    if ( '' != $text ) {
        $text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
        $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
        $text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
        $excerpt_length = 35; // 20 words
        $excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ' . '[...]');
        $text = wp_trim_words( $text, $excerpt_length, $excerpt_more );
    }
    return apply_filters('the_excerpt', $text);
}

the function is called in the html by:

<p class="bran-hn news-excerpt"><?php echo custom_field_excerpt('news_post'); ?></p>

the result looks like:

<p class="bran-hn news-excerpt"></p>
<p>Worf, It's better than music. It's jazz. Mr. Crusher, ready a collision course with the Borg ship. This is not about revenge. This is about justice. The Federation's gone; the Borg is everywhere! In all trust, [...]</p>
<p></p>

But i would have expected and head for:

<p class="bran-hn news-excerpt">Worf, It's better than music. It's jazz. Mr. Crusher, ready a collision course with the Borg ship. This is not about revenge. This is about justice. The Federation's gone; the Borg is everywhere! In all trust, [...]</p>

I guess it is caused by html tags added by the WYSIWYG editor. But adding the line:

$text = strip_tags( $text );

also hasn't helped. Anyone has an idea how to solve that issue? Best regards Ralf

Answer 1 · 2014-02-25T00:34:49Z

February 25, 2014 12:34am

Ok I finally found a solution. First you need to deactivate the auto paragraph tag for the acf wysiwyg field (the call differs from the regular wp one)

remove_filter ('acf_the_content', 'wpautop');

and in the excerpt function the field query has to be modified either:

$text = the_field($title, false, false);

Then everything is working as expected html markup wise ;)

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How to bend the HTML output if a custom excerpt is pulled from an advanced custom field plugins WYSIWYG field

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