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Post and Page Excerpt Widgets
Creates widgets that display excerpts from posts or pages in the sidebar. You may use ‘more’ links and/or link the widget title to the post or page. Based on Milan Petrovic’s Multi Instance Widget. Requires Page Excerpt or Excerpt Editor for page excerpts. Supports the_excerpt Reloaded and Advanced Excerpt.
If you’d rather not use a widget, here’s the more or less equivalent code for your template (which does not require you to install this plugin).
For pages:
<?php
// page title
echo = '<a href="'.get_permalink($post->ID).'">'.the_title().'</a>';
// custom Loop
$page_query = new WP_Query('page_id='.$post->ID);
while ($page_query->have_posts()) : $page_query->the_post();
// the excerpt of the page
if (function_exists('the_excerpt_reloaded'))
the_excerpt_reloaded(100, '<p><div><span><br><img><a><ul><ol><li><blockquote><cite><em><i><strong><b><h2><h3><h4><h5><h6>', 'content', FALSE, '', '', '1', '');
else the_excerpt(); // this covers Advanced Excerpt as well as the built-in one
endwhile; // end custom Loop
?>
For posts, the query is slightly different:
<?php
// page title
echo = '<a href="'.get_permalink($post->ID).'">'.the_title().'</a>';
// custom Loop
$post_query = new WP_Query('p='.$post->ID);
while ($post_query->have_posts()) : $post_query->the_post();
// the excerpt of the page
if (function_exists('the_excerpt_reloaded'))
the_excerpt_reloaded(100, '<p><div><span><br><img><a><ul><ol><li><blockquote><cite><em><i><strong><b><h2><h3><h4><h5><h6>', 'content', FALSE, '', '', '1', '');
else the_excerpt(); // this covers Advanced Excerpt as well as the built-in one
endwhile; // end custom Loop
?>
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Creates widgets that display excerpts from posts or pages in the sidebar. You may use
Thanks for the plugin. It can be very usefull. But somehow it shows the excerpt and below full post. What can I do with that?
Thanks for the plugin! I need to include a page excerpt on a custom landing page and am wondering if there is a php function I can call instead of using the widget interface? I’m using Excerpt Editor to generate the page excerpt.
You’d use the_excerpt as usual, but you need to be inside a loop for the appropriate post/page ID, and in most cases that will mean adding a second loop to the template. I’ve edited the page to include the code that prints the title and excerpt inside a custom loop for both posts and pages.
Is there any way for this plug-in to display the N most recent excerpts rather than a specific ID?
I need to be able to display excerpts of the last 2 or 3 blog posts on a static page template (not single post or index), either by widget or code, and have not been able to find a way to do this.
This plugin doesn’t do that, but I have the code that does and will release it as a plugin later this week.
Thanks for the reply – I found a serviceable solution for the time being, but will look forward to yours as well!
OK, it’s not on WordPress Extend yet, but here it is:
http://sillybean.net/code/wordpress/recent-posts-with-excerpts/
hey, good plugin. The page excerpt is not working properly on my blog (wp v2.8.3). The more.. link is not showing. It shows [..] instead and with no link to the page.
Have you upgraded to the latest version of the plugin? I fixed one problem with the more links. If you have, do you have any plugins (like the_excerpt reloaded, or advanced excerpt) that affect the excerpts?
I am having the same problem as baby blog…more link not working.
I have the most current Verizon of the plugin from wp extend…and am using wp v2.8.3.
I have no other plugins that might affect excerpts. The more link was working fine before upgrade.
just a heads up…based on firebug..it is not inserting the link…
Is anyone else having issues with the link to title and the more links since upgrading to wp v2.8.3?
My more link did not work…so I thought I would just link the title…but they don’t go to the right pages…
Lynne, can you post a link? I’d like to take a look at what’s going on.
Version 2.1 is out now and should solve the problems Lynne and baby blog reported. Huge thanks to Lynne for helping me test this release!
Really useful plug in, especially in seo/sem cases when you need to optimize landing pages.
I would like to show a thumbnail (that in my case is the post meta “thumb”) with the excerpt.
Have you got an idea how to do that?
bluantinoo, I’m planning to implement (optional) thumbnails using the new built-in the_post_thumbnail feature. It’ll be in a new version soonish.