Comments on: Plugin: Better Excerpt

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:57:46 +0000

Sue,

Your plugin is awesome. Thank you so much for having it available. My archives no longer look unorganized I was going crazy trying to find the cure.

Thank you,
Jeffrey

By: Chelle

Chelle — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:30:25 +0000

I've installed the plugin, and set up the options but the page is still displaying as normal - i.e. full post.

Do I need to add any code into the index page to call the better excerpt function? Or should it work straight out of the box?

Is there an option in the post page to use the excerpt? I can't find anything though.

Any suggestions where to start looking would be appreciated.

By: inky

inky — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:09:32 +0000

Meh, seems like you need to know coding pretty damn well if your going to use this plugin, way over my head.

By: Milan

Milan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:41:15 +0000

Some suggestions. it would be great if there is one more option which would define when better excerpts are used: by default or only when echoing function better_excerpt; this is because if we, for example, want to use better excerpts only in some cases, while in other places where the_excerpt is used it would show default look; this could be done by wrapping add_filter/remove_filter function with if which would check if option is selected or not you don't follow standard practices in WordPress plugin development, like consolidating options (read more about this here, here and here) or adding default options properly via register_activation_hook consider internationalization of plugin; read more here and here for your future developments, consider use of built-in functions for settings pages (read more here, here, here and here)

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:18:20 +0000

Create a new *page* template, that does this:
~ has a custom posts query that only looks at the FAQs category,
~ and outputs the title and the permalink

Create a new blank page, that uses the above template;
publish it.

Assuming you know a little about WP, it's pretty straightforward.

By: CreasonStudios

CreasonStudios — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:33:21 +0000

Is there a way to use this Plugin to pull FAQs excerpts from posts onto an FAQ page? I would like for people to click on the FAQ page and see a listing of questions, without having to click on the FAQ posting category (I want it as a main menu item). I am thinking there is some code I can put into the FAQ page that will pull up excerpts (just the title... which is the question) onto this page for people to select the question they are looking for answers to. I plan on adding more and more and would like for this feature to be automated... If you have a better suggestion as to how to do it, I would love to hear it. I am willing to pay a little (I don't have a lot) to get this accomplished... sooner, rather than later, would be optimal.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:40:55 +0000

Vielen Dank, Wolf!

And thanks to everyone for suggestions. I will get around to the next version of this plugin soon.... just paying work comes first. Sorry, but my cats must eat

By: Wolf Larsen

Wolf Larsen — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:38:30 +0000

Sue, thank you for this nice little plugin!
Certainly Better Excerpt works in WP 2.9.

For a project I changed the readmore-link to "Read more about »my article«... I added "$title = get_the_title();" and "if ($link_to_post == 1) {
$text = $text.' '.$link_text.' »'.$title.'«...';" to the plugin.

Now the Readmore is even better. Maybe this is an option in a later version of Better Excpert (and an option no other excerpt plugin had). Sorry for my bad english

From Munich, Germany
Wolf

By: Sue

Sue — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:58:05 +0000

It's working in 15 different installs here, so perhaps you could be more specific?

(Incidentally, does anyone have ANY idea how unhelpful "doesn't work" is as a comment? For goodness sake, tell me what isn't working. Give me a link. Do something!!)

By: Camelot

Camelot — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:14:00 +0000

No work in WP 2.9...