[Plugin: Blog-in-Blog] Truncate?

Ok… found part of the problem… this plugin will not ‘fake’ an excerpt if one does not all ready exist… So, I added to code to fake the excerpt if one does not exist:

function bib_excerpt($text) {
	$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
	$text = strip_tags($text);
	$words = explode(' ', $text, 101);
	if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
		array_pop($words);
		array_push($words, '<!--more-->');
		$text = implode(' ', $words);
	}

	return apply_filters('the_excerpt', $text);
}

function bib_process_excerpt($post) {

	//var_dump($post);
	$output = ($post->post_excerpt == '') ? (bib_excerpt($post->post_content))
			: (apply_filters('the_excerpt', $post->post_excerpt));

    if ( post_password_required($post) ) {
        $output = __('There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.');
        return $output;
    }

    #return apply_filters('get_the_excerpt', $output);
    return $output;
}

Now my problem is this… I can not get the plugin to process the more tag properly. In the fake excerpt I did insert the more tag at the end. The tag is stripped and not displayed to the reader, but no “continue reading…” or “more >>” is displayed, no link. If I change this code:

‘
$data[‘post_content’] = wpautop(wptexturize($post->post_content));
$data[‘post_excerpt’] = wpautop(wptexturize(bib_process_excerpt($post) ));
‘

to this:
‘
$data[‘post_content’] = wpautop(wptexturize($post->post_content));
$data[‘post_content’] = wpautop(wptexturize(bib_process_excerpt($post) ));
‘

it works, but will then also attach the new more link text to ALL posts, even those that were not really truncated….

I am guessing the fix is to add the following settings:
“Force Excerpt if none.”
“Force Excerpt to X words”

Then, if the value is set the following code is performed:
‘
$data[‘post_content’] = wpautop(wptexturize(bib_process_excerpt($post) ));
‘

And This function would need to count the words, if fewer then the cut-off do not add the more tag…

Ok… I found one error. My if count words statement was messed up. I corrected it, and it will now correctly only add the More Tag to posts it has to create a fake excerpt for. The problem is I still have to do this:

$data['post_content'] = wpautop(wptexturize(bib_process_excerpt($post) ));

and in the template use %post_content%

I have not figured out how to get it to process the more tag properly on post_excerpt.

I am now looking at trying to pass the post thumbnail back instead of the author avatar…