Merge pull request #247 from toolstack/fix-the-excerpt

Make the excerpt code actually crop the excerpt at 400 characters.
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Matthias Pfefferle 2023-01-16 15:04:47 +01:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -294,12 +294,62 @@ class Post {
$excerpt = \apply_filters( 'the_content', $excerpt );
$excerpt = \str_replace( ']]>', ']]>', $excerpt );
$excerpt_length = \apply_filters( 'excerpt_length', $excerpt_length );
}
}
// Strip out any remaining tags.
$excerpt = \wp_strip_all_tags( $excerpt );
/** This filter is documented in wp-includes/formatting.php */
$excerpt_more = \apply_filters( 'excerpt_more', ' [...]' );
$excerpt_more_len = strlen( $excerpt_more );
$excerpt = \wp_trim_words( $excerpt, $excerpt_length, $excerpt_more );
// We now have a excerpt, but we need to check it's length, it may be longer than we want for two reasons:
//
// * The user has entered a manual excerpt which is longer that what we want.
// * No manual excerpt exists so we've used the content which might be longer than we want.
//
// Either way, let's trim it up if we need too. Also, don't forget to take into account the more indicator
// as part of the total length.
//
// Setup a variable to hold the current excerpts length.
$current_excerpt_length = strlen( $excerpt );
// Setup a variable to keep track of our target length.
$target_excerpt_length = $excerpt_length - $excerpt_more_len;
// Setup a variable to keep track of the current max length.
$current_excerpt_max = $target_excerpt_length;
// This is a loop since we can't calculate word break the string after 'the_excpert' filter has run (we would break
// all kinds of html tags), so we have to cut the excerpt down a bit at a time until we hit our target length.
while( $current_excerpt_length > $target_excerpt_length && $current_excerpt_max > 0 ) {
// Trim the excerpt based on wordwrap() positioning.
// Note: we're using <br> as the linebreak just in case there are any newlines existing in the excerpt from the user.
// There won't be any <br> left after we've run wp_strip_all_tags() in the code above, so they're
// safe to use here. It won't be included in the final excerpt as the substr() will trim it off.
$excerpt = substr( $excerpt, 0, strpos( wordwrap( $excerpt, $current_excerpt_max, '<br>' ), '<br>' ) );
// If something went wrong, or we're in a language that wordwrap() doesn't understand,
// just chop it off and don't worry about breaking in the middle of a word.
if( strlen( $excerpt ) > $excerpt_length - $excerpt_more_len ) {
$excerpt = substr( $excerpt, 0, $current_excerpt_max );
}
// Add in the more indicator.
$excerpt = $excerpt . $excerpt_more;
// Run it through the excerpt filter which will add some html tags back in.
$excerpt_filtered = apply_filters( 'the_excerpt', $excerpt );
// Now set the current excerpt length to this new filtered length.
$current_excerpt_length = strlen( $excerpt_filtered );
// Check to see if we're over the target length.
if( $current_excerpt_length > $target_excerpt_length ) {
// If so, remove 20 characters from the current max and run the loop again.
$current_excerpt_max = $current_excerpt_max - 20;
}
}