Comments on: Recent Posts with Excerpts

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:42:32 +0000

Hi, Sadee. Normally, you would want the excerpt to be repeated, because people might reach that article in other ways (searching, linking from another post, etc.). If you really do want to omit it, though, you could replace the_content() in your theme file with get_extended(). The Codex info is a little sparse, but Monday By Noon has a good explanation.

By: Sadee Whip

Sadee Whip — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:39:53 +0000

Love the plugin but when you click the post to read more and it goes to the blog the whole exerpt is included. So it’s repeating itself.

Here is what happens – so the link was clicked and now you are reading the post page with the full post. Note the first 7 sentences are repeated so the exerpt is getting tagged on to the beginning of post making it quite redundant. How do I fix this?? (See example below)

One of the things I love about the Energy Balls is how flexible they are. While we recommend starting your day by taking 3-4, it is perfectly acceptable, and we encourage, you to play with your protocol.

Recently I began having 5 in the morning first thing when I wake up. I have noticed [...]

Thank you for your help and for the plugin.

By: Eileen Callahan

Eileen Callahan — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:12:43 +0000

Love your plugin for post excerpts, but I’m finding that the “…more” link is too far below the text of the excerpt to work with my theme.

What would I change to move it up closer (like on the next line below the excerpt, instead of 2 or 3 lines below, as it is now)?

Thanks so much!

By: Daniel Eriksson

Daniel Eriksson — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:01:56 +0000

Ooops, that code was munched up by some filter. Anyway, line 90 of recent-with-excerpts-widgets.php leaves three stray closing elements (a, small and p) if more_text is empty.

By: Daniel Eriksson

Daniel Eriksson — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:59:24 +0000

Minor bug report: Line 90 leaves stray "" if the more_text field is empty. Change the end of that line from to

By: Jason Smith

Jason Smith — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:28:23 +0000

I just try for simple code without any plugin to show recent post excerpt

By: alabik

alabik — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:30:22 +0000

is there other manual editing and not to using the plugins? i wanna make the recent post with excerpt but not to use the plugins.

By: Mr Bootle

Mr Bootle — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:43:22 +0000

Great plugin but I need shortcode / template features and it doesn’t appear you have it working yet? Shame as this is exactly what I was looking for.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:52:41 +0000

Hi is it possible to style the name of the featured post? Currently it shows up the same size as the main post header in the centre column.
Any help would be great. Nice plug-in.

By: yoko

yoko — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:30:03 +0000

Hi, thanks for the great plugin!

When I insert the caption to the image in the post, actually the image caption shows up in the widget before the post. Is there any way not to show the caption in the widget?
Thanks!