[wp-hackers] : the_excerpt filters

[Alakhnor]

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> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:18:10 -0500
> From: Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Re: the_excerpt filters
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> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Alakhnor <alakhnor at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >  > I'm not following you there. If you want to change something in the
> >  > excerpt, you have both the_excerpt and get_the_excerpt filters.
> What's
> >  > wrong with those?
> >  >
> >  It's because those filters (the_excerpt and get_the_excerpt) are
> applied
> >  after the content filters. Therefore, whatever is built inside the
> content
> >  has to be unbuild if you want the excerpt to not apply the same
> changes.
> 
> I'm really still not seeing the problem with that. What exactly are
> you wanting to do that is so difficult here?
> 
> wp_trim_excerpt is basically gutting the post anyway. It's cutting out
> all html tags of any sort, trimming down to the first 55 words, etc.
> The whole point of it is basically to take a formatted post and
> totally munge it up into some simple text. An excerpt can't contain
> HTML or anything else that isn't text anyway (it would break the RSS
> feed). So, what, exactly, are you wanting to do?
> 
> 
Well, first, it's not efficient, on a performance stand point, to create a
content and then undo it.
But the thing is, the tag stripping doesn't take off everything. If you add
content or scripts, the wp_trim_excerpt will not withdraw it from the
result.