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limit words in excerpt
I am using the example on docs.textpattern.com/tags/excerpt#example-3-automatically-extract-the-excerpt-from-body-text to limit the number of words showing in excerpts but it nevertheless appears that all excerpts are preceded by p>
<txp:excerpt trim="/^\W*((?:\w+\W+){55})\w.*$/s" replace="$1…" />Did I break the internet?
Yiannis
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Re: limit words in excerpt
Digging deeper into this and what appears that it is happening <txp:excerpt trim="/^\W*((?:\w+\W+){55})\w.*$/s" replace="$1…" /> trims the opening p tag (<) and does not add a closing p tag (</p>). The only way I could solve it was to add the escape="tags" attribute as in the example.
<p><txp:excerpt escape="tags" trim="/^\W*((?:\w+\W+){55})\w.*$/s" replace="$1…" /></p>Yiannis
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Re: limit words in excerpt
This is what AI suggests:
<txp:excerpt escape="tags" trim="/^(?:<[^>]+>)*\\W*((?:\\b\\w+\\b\\W+){1,55})\\w*\\b.*$/s" replace="$1…" />Offline
Re: limit words in excerpt
kuopassa wrote #338635:
This is what AI suggests:
<txp:excerpt escape="tags" trim="/^(?:<[^>]+>)*\\W*((?:\\b\\w+\\b\\W+){1,55})\\w*\\b.*$/s" replace="$1…" />...
Thanks so much, but it does not work. The p tags are misbehaving, and the word limit is not working:(
I’ll stick with what I have for now until I think of anything better.
Yiannis
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NeMe | hblack.art | EMAP | A Sea change | Toolkit of Care
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Re: limit words in excerpt
Old plugin, still works: rss_auto_excerpt
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