Joshuwar

My mistake- the plugin was fine, I had made a mistake with a db import so the posts thought they had images set even when they didn’t…

Sorry!

Hey cangpo and sumobi,

Just been poking around in the taxonomy meta plugin, and I think if you change line 518 to:

call_user_func( array( $this, 'save_field_' . $type ), &$meta, $field, $old, $new );

(ie. adding the ampersand to the $meta variable), the error doesn’t get thrown.

I haven’t tested whether this is watertight but it seems to work now at least.

Interesting… So I searched for the add_shortcode() call in the plugin, and it wasn’t there. So I had a look for the mechanism it was using. It seems that it was doing a preg_replace on the shortcode, and dumping the results back into the content via a couple of filters:

add_filter('the_content', 'sr_addstar');
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'sr_addstar');

I realised all I needed to do was add another line:

add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'sr_addstar');

And hey- it worked.

So it was the plugin. Thanks vtxyzzy for pointing me in the right direction.

Sorry I don’t follow- on my page template I tried:

do_shortcode(get_the_excerpt());

and

echo do_shortcode(get_the_excerpt());

But neither execute the shortcode. Without the echo nothing is output at all, with the echo I get the text of the shortcode included in the excerpt, as described above.

The shortcode I’m using is created by a plugin: Star-Rating-for-Reviews. This shortcode is executed perfectly when I call the_excerpt();, but not when using do_shortcode(get_the_excerpt);

Am I missing something?

PS. Thanks! (:

I tried that- it just echoes the unexecuted shortcode, like this:

[shortcode] the text of the excerpt

Will keep digging when I have a chance…

OK. Well, for the record, here are things I’ve tried. Please let me know if anything doesn’t look right so I can try again.

Replacing the string replace function in the get_the_excerpt function (I commented out the bit of trim_excerpt which gets rid of script etc):

function improved_trim_excerpt($text) {
        global $post;
        if ( '' == $text ) {
                $text = get_the_content('');
                /*$text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
                 $text = str_replace('\]\]\>', ']]>', $text);
                 $text = preg_replace('@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si', '', $text);
                 $text = strip_tags($text, '<p>'); */
                $excerpt_length = 80;
                $words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
                if (count($words)> $excerpt_length) {
                        array_pop($words);
                        array_push($words, '[...]');
                        $text = implode(' ', $words);
                }
        }
        return $text;
}

remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'improved_trim_excerpt');

I also tried this, which I saw suggested in a few places:

add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'shortcode_unautop');
add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'do_shortcode');

And I tried this, with and without an echo:

do_shortcode(get_the_excerpt());

None of these are working for me. I will either dig out the reason, or create a workaround which fulfils my requirement, and post it back here.

Is this in the wrong place on the forum? Should I repost in another section?

Any ideas at all?

post a code or a link and it will be easier for people to help you.

Remove or comment out

echo '<h4>'. single_cat_title( '', false ) . '</h4>';
echo category_description();

(To comment them out, and thereby leave the code in the file in case you need it later, just add // before each of those two lines).

As alchymyth said- do back up before you make any changes.

And see if that does what you need.

Thanks for the replies, people.

The thing I actually *did* was what thecodezombie suggested: rebranding the generic login page. It’s nice to use the WP lost password features, and it’s a pretty form, so hey.

Since then I’ve also learnt that when I said:

Can something on functions.php be made to override or add to existing core functions?

I was probably looking for the WP action hooks and filters. I didn’t use them, however, because it was simpler not too. I’d be curious to know how they might be used to these ends, though…

You might try Conditional Tags.

<?php if (is_home()) {?>
 Insert your ticker code...
<?php }?>

Does that sound right?

I’ve only been changing section.php for styling, and wp-suvery-and-quiz-tool.php, to rename some admin options, certainly nothing which would break a query. I’ll have a go with a clean install and get back to you.

Nice one Iain- thanks for the support!

Ah- I’ve merged with my other changes and there’s still an issue with the additional text query- it no longer generates new questions, but it still doesn’t save the new values- if you leave the question admin page and then return to it, the original additional text persists.