[wp-testers] WordPress 3.0: problem with empty excerpts being returned by the_excerpt()

[Darren Di Lieto]

I had the same problem and thought it was a plugin. I disabled all my
plugins and nothing worked. So tried a clean install and still had the
same problem.

I gave up trying to fix it, as no one else seem to have the problem on
the forums. So I worked around it with...

<?php $excerpt = strip_tags(get_the_content());
if((strlen($excerpt) > 55)) {  echo substr($excerpt,0,55); ?>...
<?php } else { echo $excerpt; } ?>

Let me know if anyone wants anymore details.

Darren

Krusty Ruffle wrote:
> I'm encountering a situation where the_excerpt somehow returns empty
> excerpts for. I first encountered this in a custom post type where I had an
> excerpt but then emptied the excerpt field and updated the post. Afterwards
> the excerpt on index pages was empty. I tried replicating this with a
> regular post and found the same behavior.
>
> running:
> echo has_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
> returns '10' which shows that wp_trim_excerpt() is running, which is where I
> think WordPress creates custom excerpt if none is specified for the post.
>
> I've tried disabling all plugins and setting Twenty Ten as the theme but
> still get the same results.
>
> The strange thing is that it works fine if no excerpt was ever saved with
> the post. It will create and display as expected, if you save a post with an
> excerpt it will display that excerpt, but if you go back to the edit screen,
> delete everything from the excerpt field and save again it suddenly stops
> working.
>
> Am I missing something here, or is this maybe just happening to me?
>
> Thanks for reading...
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