Thank you

Marios

I would really like the ability to use the insert more tag to inspire people to click through and open the actual article rather than reading it all on the home page.

In some cases, I’ve had people link to my homepage instead of the actual post, which is not best for SEO.

Is there an easy way to accomplish this?

Take care with this, strip_tags is a php function that remove as much html tags as possible but this mean it will fake the word count (in my previous comment I said I was new to WP but I am PHP developper) in the plugin php source before explode function you have :

output = strip_tags($output);
explode(‘ ‘, $output, $nr_word);
count($words);

this mean that all html tags are removed, then full text is exploded into an array using space as separator for each array entry, then the number of array entries is counted so this will give you the words count.

If you do what you say, removing strip_tags, this will leave hml tags make wrong word count, for example if you set 1 word count and your text begin with a word that is enclosed between a BOLD tag pair with a space separator before the word, then you’ll get an array with BOLD tag as first entry as “word number 1”, but not your real word that will be at position 2 in the array.

Then once the text is recontructed, only the first word will be showed and this is a BOLD tag so you’ll not get you real word and…worst…is may fake all the rest of your page.

The solution is too simple, I found this after a lot of research. All you need to do is just edit the plugin as follows.

1. Login to wordpress and Deactivate the plugin

2. Goto “Editor” listed under “Plugins”

3. Select the “Homepage excerpts” plugin

4. Now search for the line which says $output = strip_tags($output);

5. Just delete that line or comment it …

thats it..Now you can get all those formatting in your excerpts…Enjoy…

I think WordPress, at one time, had an Options menu item, but it has since been removed in updates. I see this in plugin instructions all the time, so it must be old information.

If you go to ‘Settings’ you’ll see where to edit the Homepage Excerpts plugin. Click on the down arrow to the right of it in your control panel menu and you’ll see a menu item for Homepage Excerpts.

Very nice plugin,

But is there a way to remove all “p” or “br” from the first xxx characters ?

Looking at plug-in’s source I don’t understand how the original or are kept.

The strip_tags should have removed them all and in fact if I do a `echo $output; just before the `return $output;, the echo show one full line of the first xxx charecters (no “p” or “br” ), but once wordpress get the `return $output result then it finally get the original tags.

But as I am new to WP may be there is something I don’t understood about how add_filter works ?

using wp 2.9.2

regards.

But is there a way to remove all or from the first xxx characters ?

Looking at plug-in’s source I don’t understand how the original or are kept.

The strip_tags should have removed them all and in fact if I do a “echo $output;” just before the “return $output;”, the echo show one full line of the first xxx charecters (no or ), but once wordpress get the “return $output” result then it finally get the original tags.

But as I am new to WP may be there is something I don’t understood about how add_filter works ?

using wp 2.9.2

regards.

In the entire 3 minute process, all we needed was our 2 button mouse.

Please thank your friend as well for helping with the plugin.

411 NY

PS. We will change “Continue Reading…” to “List Event…” to match the section of our site.

I too am having a hard time. I am new to WordPress. I downloaded the plugin just fine. But I don’t know how to Uploade the file homepage-excerpts.php to my plugin directory. (Can’t find my plugin directory) and then when I log into the WordPress control panel, I can’t find `Plugins. Can you help???? I am stuck. Thank you!

In your loading instructions, you state after activating the plugin, and while in the control panel go to options. I am using WP version 2,9,2 and can not find Options in the plugin. Am I blind. Please help.

Do you have any experience with WP membership plugins? I am looking around for independent experience and testimonies about Wishlist and WP eMember, to name two of them.

Thank you!

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Please advise. Thanks!

Thank you!!

Thanks for the great plug-in!

Thanks

Thanks so much for a brilliant plug-in. I was starting to lose hope that I’d find a simple solution to my overcrowded landing page but your plug-in is perfect. Installed in 3 minutes or less. Thanks again!

One question/concern….dup content wise. Here is my situation. I have a wordpress blog where I have a sticky post that is a sales letter basically. I want to leave that in full post mode, yet make all the rest of the front page excerpts.

I see I can do that with this plug in,however, my question/concern is. When I leave that one post in full mode,that means it is duplicate content because it is also in full mode in the single post area.

I suppose I would need to noindex and/or nofollow that single post view?

Thoughts? Thanks

My problem is I’ve been trying to do this for the subnav bar and Recent Posts sidebar as well, where clicking on these areas take you to the full post immediately, thus bypassing the excerpts by default. My website is structured in such a way where I only have one post per category, so excerpts are pretty redundant that only results in unnecessary additional clicks for the viewer.

I have been trying to find a code modification or plugin for this in the last few days but have been unsuccessful. Someone commented about extending this plugin to the category, archive etc pages, and I think that is precisely the thing I’m looking for.

Thank you. 😉

I’ll probably give it a try anyhow.

Great plugin, just what I was looking for as I know little about coding and this helps a lot. I have installed and activated the plugin, however the post and excerpts are all showing in my “journal ” page instead of the home page. I simple wanted to have my latest post and maybe one excerpt but it is not. I have the Gears wordpress theme. Any ideas as to what i can do? Also, in the options section I cannot choose how many excerpts I want to use. Is this the case?

thanks for any feedback!

Let me know.

Our version is 2.8.4 and theme is the standard ‘fsimple’.

Please can someone direct me more precisely, thanks!
Rebecca

Why not add a donation button? Think it is worth donating to as it is a great plugin.

Keep up the great work.

Kozan.

– using an tag in the custom excerpt field
– works great on home page
– on permalink page the excerpt text that is after the img tag in the custom excerpt field is showing up at the top left corner of the browser (right after the tag) with (“/>) trailing.

any ideas how to fix?

– i’ve triple checked my html tags.
– it doesn’t happen if i don’t use html