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Tuesday, 19 January 2010

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What you have to do is to paste this code into your functions.php file and let WordPress filters do the work for you.

function my_excerpts($content = false) {
// If is the home page, an archive, or search results
if(is_front_page() || is_archive() || is_search()) :
global $post;
$content = $post->post_excerpt;

// If an excerpt is set in the Optional Excerpt box
if($content) :
$content = apply_filters(‘the_excerpt’, $content);

// If no excerpt is set
else :
$content = $post->post_content;
$excerpt_length = 55;
$words = explode(‘ ‘, $content, $excerpt_length + 1);
if(count($words) > $excerpt_length) :
array_pop($words);
array_push($words, ‘…’);
$content = implode(‘ ‘, $words);
endif;
$content = ‘<p>’ . $content . ‘</p>’;

endif;
endif;

// Make sure to return the content
return $content;

}

add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘my_excerpts’);

Thanks to Justin Tadlock for this cool snippet!
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