[wp-hackers] return automatic excerpt?

[Michael B]

Only if I manually add the more tag.  I might as well use the optional
excerpt as I'm currently doing.

On 11/2/06, Computer Guru <computerguru at neosmart.net> wrote:
>
> Yeah, but the_content does just that.
> It outputs the excerpt + a read more link.
>
> Computer Guru
> NeoSmart Technologies
> http://neosmart.net/blog/
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> > bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Michael B
> > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 1:02 AM
> > To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] return automatic excerpt?
> >
> > Well, as I said, I'm muddling my way through this.  But I'm not trying
> > to
> > get the content, rather the excerpt.  I can output the content via the
> > method I'm using now.
> >
> > ~miklb
> >
> > On 11/2/06, Computer Guru <computerguru at neosmart.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Why do it manually?
> > >
> > > Use the_content() to grab the post of your liking. It'll take care of
> > all
> > > that for you.
> > >
> > > To use the_content() just first run the SQL query that picks the post
> > > number(s), then activate the_content() or get_the_content() depending
> > on
> > > your needs.
> > >
> > > Computer Guru
> > > NeoSmart Technologies
> > > http://neosmart.net/blog/
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> > > > bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Michael B
> > > > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 12:44 AM
> > > > To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > > > Subject: [wp-hackers] return automatic excerpt?
> > > >
> > > > I'm muddling my way through customizing a random post plugin to
> > output
> > > > the
> > > > excerpt of a post with a read more link.  Currently it's only
> > working
> > > > if I
> > > > put a manual excerpt in the post, how can I automatically output
> > the
> > > > excerpt.
> > > >
> > > > Here's the code I'm using:
> > > > $listContent =    stripslashes(str_replace('"', '',
> > > > $display->post_excerpt));
> > > >
> > > >                 //    Set up the return string
> > > >                 if ( $before ) $result    .=    $before;
> > > >                 $result  .=    '<a href="' .
> > post_permalink($display-
> > > > >ID) .
> > > > '" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to &quot;' . $listTitle .
> > > > '&quot;">'
> > > > . $listTitle . '</a>'  . '<br />' . $listContent . '<a href="' .
> > > > post_permalink($display->ID) . '" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent
> > link
> > > > to
> > > > &quot;' . $listTitle . '&quot;">' . ' Read more' . '</a>' ;
> > > >
> > > > Currently I'm simply pulling the field via
> > > > $postSQL =  "SELECT
> > > > $wpdb->posts.post_excerpt";
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any help.
> > > >
> > > > ~miklb
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