[Plugin: Category Posts Widget] Excerpt differs on site, excerpted post

  • Hello!
    I’m having a problem with the category posts plugin “Show post excerpt” feature. I’m not sure if this is a WordPress 2.5.1 or a plugin issue so here goes…

    Here is the post for which I’ve written a specific, custom excerpt in WordPress.
    https://preview.austinrwa.org/2008/05/june-2008-meeting/
    As you can see, the custom excerpt shows up in the first sidebar and looks just ducky!

    But elsewhere on the site….
    https://preview.austinrwa.org/
    I get the full post contents (w/o formatting) rather than the value of the excerpt field, almost as if it doesn’t see that an excerpt exists.

    Any ideas? I’d like to get the excerpt to show up consistently. Thanks in advance!

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  • Thread Starter Katherine White

    (@katwhite)

    Update: it looks like this is related to the plugin after all; I just did something similar pulling the excerpt with the c2c “Customizable Post Listings” plugin and got the correct excerpt value on my home page. Thanks!

    Thread Starter Katherine White

    (@katwhite)

    I was able to correct this by changing the call to the_excerpt(); in jl_cat_posts_widget() to echo $post->post_excerpt; in cat-posts.php. It would be nice not to have to edit the plugin, though. If you (awesome developer person) have time to resolve it on your end, that would be ideal. Thanks!

    I’ve been having the same problem. This is clearly a bugaboo in the plugin, which is a shame because I really like it. I know next to nothing about php, and yet I’m gonna go try to mimic kat’s kind suggestion. If you hear the sound of a screaming man echoing across the intertubes, that’d be me, busting my site….

    I found this post a little late, but I made the following change to the cat-posts.php file that others might find useful.

    Find:

    the_excerpt();

    Replace with:

    if ($post->post_excerpt!=NULL) {
   echo $post->post_excerpt;
}
else {
   the_excerpt();
}

    Sorry for the problems guys. College has been keeping me busy and I haven’t had much free time to update this.

    I’ve integrated carnyfeet’s fix. Should work fine now.

    Thanks,

    James

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