Blog style homepage

not quite understand. what’s the different between beginning of article and auto excerpt?

do you mean the “excerpt field” metabox in write post?

Yes, the excerpt metabox in each article : https://theme-fusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Excerpt-Meta-Box.png

When I say the beginning of article, I mean the auto excerpt, sorry.

try open lib/functions/theme-functions.php and replace line 499

function dez_get_custom_the_excerpt($limit=”,$more=”) {
— more code —
}

to this

function dez_get_custom_the_excerpt($limit='',$more='') {
global $post;
$thepostlink = '<a class="readmore" href="'. get_permalink() . '" title="' . the_title_attribute('echo=0') . '">';
$custom_text = get_post_meta($post->ID,'post_custom_text',true);
if($custom_text) {
if($more) {
    $excerpt = $custom_text . $thepostlink . $more . '</a>';
    } else {
    $excerpt = $custom_text;
    }
return $excerpt;

} else {

$content = wp_strip_all_tags(get_the_content() , true );
//remove caption tag
$content_filter = preg_replace('<code>\[[^\]]*\]</code>','',$content);
//remove email tag
$pattern = "/[^@\s]*@[^@\s]*\.[^@\s]*/";
$replacement = "";
$content_filter = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $content_filter);
//remove link url tag
$pattern = "/[a-zA-Z]*[:\/\/]*[A-Za-z0-9\-_]+\.+[A-Za-z0-9\.\/%&=\?\-_]+/i";
$replacement = "";
$content_filter = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $content_filter);

if($more) {
    $excerpt = wp_trim_words($content_filter, $limit) . $thepostlink.$more.'</a>';
    } else {
    $excerpt = wp_trim_words($content_filter, $limit);
    }
return $excerpt;
}
}

Thanks Richie.

I’ve replaced from line 499 to 531 and i’ve put your new code. But on the homepage where the excerpt is normally displayed, I get this :
Warning: preg_replace(): Unknown modifier ‘\’ in wordpress\wp-content\themes\mesocolumn\lib\functions\theme-functions.php on line 515

Any idea ?

the code work for me, see if there’s any issue when copy paste the code like quot vs quot etc ‘ ”

Ok, thanks Richie.