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Kerry Russell
Courses Plus Student 2,924 PointsTwo Excerpt Lengths? Possible?
Hi.
I need to have the excerpt for the first blog post on the homepage longer than the others experts.
I've been searching the internet for a solution, but I've been unsuccessful so far.
can anyone help?
Thanks Kerry
3 Answers
Andrew Shook
31,709 PointsKerry, do you need a longer or shorter excerpt? As far as I know there is no way to have two excerpt lengths at the same time. You can, however, write a custom function that will do it for you. Give this a try, but be warned I didn't test the code myself:
<?php
function custom_excerpt($length = 55){
$content = explode( " ", get_the_content());
echo implode(" ", array_slice($content, 0, $length - 1));
}
?>
If you add this to your theme's functions.php you should be able to call it in any of you template files.
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 PointsActually, now that I'm looking more at it, this should work too:
<?php
// functions.php
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'two_different_excerpt_lengths' );
function two_different_excerpt_lengths($current_excerpt_length)
{
if ( $post->ID === wp_get_recent_posts( array(
'numberposts' => 1,
'orderby' => 'post_date',
'order' => 'DESC',
) )[0] ) {
return 45;
} else {
return 55;
}
}
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 PointsI'm not sure if this will work, but it's worth a shot.
<?php
// functions.php
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', `two_different_excerpt_lengths` );
function two_different_excerpt_lengths($current_excerpt_length)
{
if ( is_post() ) {
return 45;
} else {
return 55;
}
}
This code should give you an excerpt of 45 words on blog posts, and 55 words on everything else. You can change the conditions to be whatever you need. As I said before, it might not work, so don't try this out in production. :)
Andrew Shook
31,709 PointsThat's a great way to do it if she need to change it by post type.