Comments on: Get Better Excerpt Plugin for WordPress

By: Brock

Brock — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:48:39 +0000

I don’t know if you’re taking bug reports here, but this will address the previous two comments.

The last line of the get_better_excerpt function tries to use $show, which is never instantiated. It currently reads:

if ($show) {echo $excerpt;} else {return $excerpt;}

But it should be:

if ($ns_options['show']) {echo $excerpt;} else {return $excerpt;}

Victor and Andrew, you have two options to fix your problem:

1. Go into the get-better-excerpt.php file and replace that last line.
2. In your theme where you call get_better_excerpt(), put an echo statement right before it. By default, the function is returning the excerpt instead of printing it out.

By: Andrew Koop

Andrew Koop — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:45:54 +0000

I’m having a the same trouble, Victor. Did you ever find a solution? Thanks.

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:39:17 +0000

I tried a straight substitute of the_content() with get_better_excerpt() in my theme’s index.php file and all I get is a blank space.

By: WordPress Plugins & Themes :: Christopher Ross

WordPress Plugins & Themes :: Christopher Ross — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:20:29 +0000

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