Plugin / Rich Text Excerpts

Peter Edwards
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Upload the plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress Configure the plugin using the Plugin options page under the Settings menu If you want to use excerpts in pages, add this to your theme’s functions.php file: add_post_type_support('page', 'excerpt'); See add_post_type_support in the Codex for details. If you want to use excerpts in Custom Post Types, do it when you create them using the supports array in the arguments for register_post_type.
This plugin has a settings page where you can configure which post types use a rich text editor for their excerpts – by default only posts will use the rich text editor. The post types displayed on the settings page are only those which support excerpts, so if you don’t see your post type here, it doesn’t support manual excerpts. If you want to use excerpts in pages, add this to your theme’s functions.php file: add_post_type_support('page', 'excerpt'); See add_post_type_support in the Codex for details. If you want to use excerpts in Custom Post Types, do it when you create them using the supports array in the arguments for register_post_type, or use a plugin like Types.
This plugin only adds the ability to edit excerpts in the WordPress admin area using a Rich Text editor. How these excerpts are displayed on your site, or whether they are displayed at all, is the responsibility of the theme you are using. Most themes will use the ‘correct’ way of displaying hand-crafted excerpts, which is to call get_the_excerpt() outside the wordpress ‘loop’, or the_excerpt() inside the loop. However, there are other wordpress functons which can be used to get excerpts, such as wp_trim_excerpt(), which will generate an excerpt from the post content rather than using the excerpt field. Themes could also remove all formatting and shortcodes from excerpts.
Again, the way excerpts are displayed on your site, or whether they are displayed at all, is the responsibility of the theme you are using (and not this plugin). If you have access to the theme files, there are a number of ways you can process shortcodes in excerpts, depending on the method used to display them in the theme. For instance, if the excerpt is added to pages/posts using the_excerpt(), you could change this to echo do_shortcode(get_the_excerpt()). Another approach would be to try the techniques outlined here: using shortcodes everywhere
Other plugins which enhance the excerpt editor in some way will probably have issues with this plugin, as it removes and re-adds the excerpt editor meta box. The best solution would be to encourage the developers of the other plugin to utilise a rich text editor in their plugin (it isn’t hard!).

Ratings

4.7
24 reviews

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Details Information

Version

1.3.4

First Released

08 Jun, 2009

Total Downloads

79,597

Wordpress Version

3.3 or higher

Tested up to:

4.9.12

Require PHP Version:

-

Tags

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