I've already checked out this post (Multiple excerpt lengths in wordpress) but it's obviously for versions of WordPress many many times removed from where we're at now. I need multiple lengths for different areas as well, but with tags stripped out. I don't use the "excerpt" box on a post, so it needs to concatenate the content itself. I very much liked the suggested answer on that page that included "short", "regular" and "long", but I can't seem to get it to work.
I'm using this in a shortcode loop on my homepage that displays the first post in a group a different way than the remaining 4 posts. I'm only including the code up through the end of the first post since the others do not include an excerpt.
This is what I currently have. Maybe someone can see where I'm messing things up:
FUNCTIONS.PHP class Excerpt {
// Default length (by WordPress)
public static $length = 55;
// So you can call: my_excerpt('short');
public static $types = array(
'short' => 25,
'regular' => 55,
'long' => 100
);
/**
* Sets the length for the excerpt,
* then it adds the WP filter
* And automatically calls the_excerpt();
*
* @param string $new_length
* @return void
* @author Baylor Rae'
*/
public static function length($new_length = 55) {
Excerpt::$length = $new_length;
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'Excerpt::new_length', 999);
Excerpt::output();
}
// Tells WP the new length
public static function new_length() {
if( isset(Excerpt::$types[Excerpt::$length]) )
return Excerpt::$types[Excerpt::$length];
else
return Excerpt::$length;
}
// Echoes out the excerpt
public static function output() {
the_excerpt();
}
}
// An alias to the class
function my_excerpt($length = 55) {
Excerpt::length($length);
}
RECENT POSTS
<?php $args2 = array(
'post_type' => 'post',
'posts_per_page' => 5,
'orderby' => 'date',
'order' => 'DESC',
'post_status' => 'publish',
);
$recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args2 );
$count2 = 0;
foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ){
$count2++;
if ($count2 == 1) { ?>
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-6">
<div class="first-news clearfix">
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink($recent["ID"]); ?>" title="<?php echo $recent["post_title"]; ?>">
<?php $feat_image3 = wp_get_attachment_url( get_post_thumbnail_id($recent["ID"]) ); ?>
<div class="post-thumbnail" style="background-image: url(<?php echo $feat_image3; ?>); height: 200px;">
<?php $format = get_post_format($recent["ID"]);
if ( false === $format ) { ?>
<span class="standard overlay-icon"><i class="fa fa-search fa-2x"></i></span>
<?php }
if ( 'aside' === $format ) { ?>
<span class="aside overlay-icon"></span>
<?php }
if ( 'image' === $format ) { ?>
<span class="image overlay-icon"><i class="fa fa-photo fa-2x"></i></span>
<?php }
if ( 'video' === $format ) { ?>
<span class="video overlay-icon"><i class="fa fa-video-camera fa-2x"></i></span>
<?php }
if ( 'quote' === $format ) { ?>
<span class="quote overlay-icon"><i class="fa fa-quote-left fa-2x"></i></span>
<?php }
if ( 'link' === $format ) { ?>
<span class="link overlay-icon"><i class="fa fa-link fa-2x"></i></span>
<?php }
if ( 'gallery' === $format ) { ?>
<span class="gallery overlay-icon fa-stack">
<i class="fa fa-image fa-stack-1x fa-nudge-right fa-nudge-down fa-outline-inverse" style="font-size:1.5em" ></i>
<i class="fa fa-image fa-stack-1x fa-outline-inverse" style="font-size:1.5em" ></i>
<div style="background-color:#FFF;width:70%;height:55%;left:4%;top:10%;position:absolute"></div>
<i class="fa fa-image fa-stack-1x fa-nudge-left fa-nudge-up fa-outline-inverse" style="font-size: 1.5em"></i>
</span>
<?php }
if ( 'status' === $format ) { ?>
<span class="status overlay-icon"><i class="fa fa-sticky-note fa-2x"></i></span>
<?php }
if ( 'audio' === $format ) { ?>
<span class="audio overlay-icon"><i class="fa fa-volume-up fa-2x"></i></span>
<?php }
if ( 'chat' === $format ) { ?>
<span class="chat overlay-icon"><i class="fa fa-commenting fa-2x"></i></span>
<?php }
if ( 'code' === $format ) { ?>
<span class="code overlay-icon"><i class="fa fa-code fa-2x"></i></span>
<?php }
?>
</div>
</a>
<a title="<?php the_title($recent["ID"]) ?>" href="<?php echo get_permalink($recent["ID"]); ?>" rel="bookmark">
<h3 class="post-box-title"><?php echo get_the_title($recent["ID"]); ?></h3>
</a>
<p class="post-meta">
<span class="darwin-date">
<i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i>
<?php echo get_the_time('M d, Y', $recent["ID"]); ?>
</span>
</p>
<div class="entry">
<p>
<?php echo my_excerpt('short', $recent['ID']); ?>
</p>
<div class="more-posts">
<a class="more-link" title="<?php echo get_the_title($recent["ID"]); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink($recent["ID"]); ?>">Read More »</a>
</div>
