Comments on: WordPress excerpts just the way you want them http://blogmum.com/2009/04/wordpress-excerpts-just-the-way-you-want-them/ WordPress made easy Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:19:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sue http://blogmum.com/2009/04/wordpress-excerpts-just-the-way-you-want-them/#comment-408 Sue Sun, 24 May 2009 16:43:48 +0000 http://blogmum.com/?p=246#comment-408 Hi Tom, Thanks for the comment. The reason strip_tags doesn't work is that it only removes HTML tags, not WP's "pseudo-tags" like the caption one. So you'll need to add an extra line of code, just before the strip_tags one. Try this: <code>$text = preg_replace('`\[[^\]]*\]`','',$text); </code> That will remove everything in square brackets - if you need something a bit more subtle, gimme a shout. Hi Tom,
Thanks for the comment. The reason strip_tags doesn't work is that it only removes HTML tags, not WP's "pseudo-tags" like the caption one. So you'll need to add an extra line of code, just before the strip_tags one. Try this:
$text = preg_replace('`\[[^\]]*\]`','',$text);
That will remove everything in square brackets - if you need something a bit more subtle, gimme a shout.

]]> By: Tom B http://blogmum.com/2009/04/wordpress-excerpts-just-the-way-you-want-them/#comment-407 Tom B Sun, 24 May 2009 15:34:13 +0000 http://blogmum.com/?p=246#comment-407 Hi Of all the solutions for stripping the_excerpt I like yours best, but, I have a problem with posts with attachments, for some reason strip_tags() doesn't strip a part of the tags and I get this text (for example) instead of the excerpt: [caption id="attachment_1083" align="alignright" width="240" Any ideas why that should happen? Thanks Tom. Hi

Of all the solutions for stripping the_excerpt I like yours best, but, I have a problem with posts with attachments, for some reason strip_tags() doesn't strip a part of the tags and I get this text (for example) instead of the excerpt:

[caption id="attachment_1083" align="alignright" width="240"

Any ideas why that should happen?

Thanks
Tom.

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