Showing Content until -Tag instead of Excerpt/Summary

Hi @clandsberg,

For this you’ll need to create a custom Content Tag as currently there’s no way to customize what the content tag {summary} returns.

Using this SO Answer as a starting point, you’ll want to use the wpp_parse_custom_content_tags filter hook to create a custom content tag -as mentioned before- that outputs exactly what you want. For example, let’s say that our new custom content tag is called {content_before_more_tag}:

/**
 * Parses custom content tags in WordPress Popular Posts.
 *
 * @param  string  $html    The HTML markup from the plugin.
 * @param  integer $post_id The post/page ID.
 * @return string
 */
function wpp_parse_tags_in_popular_posts($html, $post_id){
    // Replace custom content tag {content_before_more_tag} 
    // with the actual content
    if ( false !== strpos($html, '{content_before_more_tag}') ) {
        // Get the post content
        $content = get_post_field('post_content', $post_id);
        // Retrieve content parts
        $content_parts = get_extended($content);
        // Get content before the <!--more--> tag
        $content_before_more_tag = $content_parts['main'];

        // Replace {content_before_more_tag} with our content
        $html = str_replace(
            '{content_before_more_tag}',
            $content_before_more_tag,
            $html
        );
    }

    return $html;
}
add_filter("wpp_parse_custom_content_tags", "wpp_parse_tags_in_popular_posts", 10, 2);

Once you add the above snippet to your theme’s functions.php file, replace {summary} with {content_before_more_tag} and you should be good to go.

Thanks a lot. It works really well.