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mikevoermans
mikevoermans

Reputation: 4007

Wordpress apply get_excerpt formatting to a string

I would like to apply wordpress' get_excerpt format to a string I pass to it.

I know the standard excerpt only works within the loop - but I'm hoping there is a function or something I'm missing that generates the excerpt when you don't manually define one.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1555

Answers (1)

jamesc
jamesc

Reputation: 6328

Fixed answer:

You need wp_trim_words(). Yes - you're right. wp_trim_excerpt() doesn't play nice with passed strings.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_trim_words

wp_trim_words( "I would like to apply wordpress' get_excerpt format to a string I pass to it. I know the standard excerpt only works within the loop - but I'm hoping there is a function or something I'm missing that generates the excerpt when you don't manually define one.", 5, '[...]' ); returns "I would like to apply[...]"

Previous answer:

WordPress uses wp_trim_excerpt() to generate excerpts.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_trim_excerpt

You probably want some filtering on there too before you output (depending on the source of your text).

Upvotes: 2

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