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stripping html tags and limiting output of words
Is it normal for newbies to have so many questions?
I’m actually surprised at how much I’ve managed to get done thus far in TXP.
OK – I created a section called testimonials to display on my homepage. The title takes the client’s name, excerpt takes the client’s job title and body take’s the quote.
My custom form is like this
<div class="quote">
<txp:article_image thumbnail="0" />
<div class="blockquote">
<p class="authorname"><txp:title /></p>
<p class="authortitle"><txp:excerpt /></p>
<p class="testimonial"><txp:body /></p>
</div> <!-- end blockquote -->
<!-- end quote-->
</div>Which in turn produces
<p class="authorname">Mark Schenk</p>
<p class="authortitle"> <p>Pastor, Duncan Street Baptist</p></p>
<p class="testimonial"> <p>“Steven’s a committed designer who understands what churches need to be successful online”</p></p>How can I strip the p tags inside my p tag with class applied?
Another issue I have on my homepage is that I only want to display so many words from my client and blog section. I know I could just limit what I type in the excerpt but wondered if there was a plugin that would limit the number of words from an article?
(edited for better code display. -Els)
Last edited by els (2009-08-11 22:53:19)
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#2 2009-08-11 23:06:23
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Re: stripping html tags and limiting output of words
stevieg_83 wrote:
Is it normal for newbies to have so many questions?
It’s not unusual :)
How can I strip the p tags inside my p tag with class applied?
Textile adds the <p> tags around the body and excerpt. You can turn Textile off (either on a per article basis in the ‘Write’ screen under ‘Advanced options’ or for all articles in Preferences) or use for example <div>s in your form instead.
Another issue I have on my homepage is that I only want to display so many words from my client and blog section. I know I could just limit what I type in the excerpt but wondered if there was a plugin that would limit the number of words from an article?
Plugin: rss_auto_excerpt.
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Re: stripping html tags and limiting output of words
Thanks Els.
Much appreciated. Got the html stripping but not having so much luck with the rss_auto_excerpt plugin. Is this something you’ve used before and could help me with?
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Re: stripping html tags and limiting output of words
rss_auto_excerpt is documented here
I think you’ll want to use it like this (10 word excerpt without a “read more” link and without HTML tags):
<txp:rss_auto_excerpt words="10" showlinkwithexcerpt="0" striptags="1" />Offline