{"id":263,"date":"2014-12-09T15:20:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T20:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diananichols.wpengine.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2016-09-22T06:49:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T10:49:55","slug":"allow-html-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpwhatnot.com\/allow-html-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Allow HTML in Excerpts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default, WordPress strips all HTML tags from excerpts. To allow them, simply replace the filter that creates the excerpt from your content.<\/p>\n<p>First, copy the default excerpt filter from wp-includes\/formatting.php:<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-syntax-highlighter\">\n<pre><textarea id=\"mshighlighter\" class=\"mshighlighter\" language=\"php\" name=\"mshighlighter\" >function wp_trim_excerpt($text) { \/\/ Fakes an excerpt if needed\r\n    global $post;\r\n    if ( '' == $text ) {\r\n        $text = get_the_content('');\r\n        $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);\r\n        $text = str_replace('\\]\\]\\&gt;', ']]&amp;gt;', $text);\r\n        $text = strip_tags($text);\r\n        $excerpt_length = 55;\r\n        $words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);\r\n        if (count($words)&gt; $excerpt_length) {\r\n            array_pop($words);\r\n            array_push($words, '[...]');\r\n            $text = implode(' ', $words);\r\n        }\r\n    }\r\n    return $text;\r\n}<\/textarea><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0By changing the strip_tags parameters, you can allow whatever tags you want:<\/p>\n<p>Also be sure to change the name of the function. Copy this to your functions.php file.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-syntax-highlighter\">\n<pre><textarea id=\"mshighlighter\" class=\"mshighlighter\" language=\"php\" name=\"mshighlighter\" >function lt_html_excerpt($text) { \/\/ Fakes an excerpt if needed\r\n    global $post;\r\n    if ( '' == $text ) {\r\n        $text = get_the_content('');\r\n        $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);\r\n        $text = str_replace('\\]\\]\\&gt;', ']]&amp;gt;', $text);\r\n        \/*just add all the tags you want to appear in the excerpt --\r\n        be sure there are no white spaces in the string of allowed tags *\/\r\n        $text = strip_tags($text,'&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;');\r\n        \/* you can also change the length of the excerpt here, if you want *\/\r\n        $excerpt_length = 55; \r\n        $words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);\r\n        if (count($words)&gt; $excerpt_length) {\r\n            array_pop($words);\r\n            array_push($words, '[...]');\r\n            $text = implode(' ', $words);\r\n        }\r\n    }\r\n    return $text;\r\n}<\/textarea><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0Then, replace the default filter with your new one in functions.php:<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-syntax-highlighter\">\n<pre><textarea id=\"mshighlighter\" class=\"mshighlighter\" language=\"php\" name=\"mshighlighter\" >\/* remove the default filter *\/\r\nremove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');\r\n\r\n\/* now, add your own filter *\/\r\nadd_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'lt_html_excerpt');<\/textarea><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, WordPress strips all HTML tags from excerpts. 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