Comments on: How to Limit Content in WordPress

By: san

san — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:01:17 +0000

Hi Banago,

Thanks for your post.

I want to limit contents through a page id. I mean I have a page where I want to print limited contents from different pages using page id in each separate section for each page.

By: Renee

Renee — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:17:26 +0000

Used Banago’s solution and it worked a treat for controlling how much text is displayed in some cluster style pages I have.

Did encounter a problem though – each page of mine has an [intro] shortcode to style the first par. This function striped out any content that was in the shortcode.

By: BANAGO

BANAGO — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:59:24 +0000

I’m sorry I have not been able too. Very busy here. I hope to do so in the very near future.

By: iTsMe

iTsMe — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:23:28 +0000

@ Banago i’ve followed this post for months for the better solution u say will provide, Please can kindly post it for us…Thanks

By: vichet

vichet — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:37:42 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I have made my own version. I would like to share it here. It can close html tags, show or hide images/shortcodes, re-enable auto video emed in wordpress, strip tags, read more links. Please visit it here:

http://www.nisaiy.com/17/how-to-word-limit-wordpress-posts/

By: BANAGO

BANAGO — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:37:51 +0000

I’ve come up with a better solution that solves the problem wonderfully and is supper easy. Will write a new post for that. Stay tuned.

By: mick warnes

mick warnes — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:32:49 +0000

Banago, I have spent a long while getting this to work properly in my site and have found your scripts to be the most useful. However, I lost access to my admin and on removal on our plugin, it started to work again, not sure why as it was working ok for a while.
I then used the code above in my function file and this was doing it all apart from the ‘.’ were being stripped from the URL to the image, So I have removed this from your code
$content = preg_replace(‘/[+]/’,”, $content);
and it seems to work.
I now feel that I have bodged it to work and wondered if it was a setting in WordPress that is the issue.

By: Brett Bumeter

Brett Bumeter — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:44:44 +0000

I wasn’t happy with any of the above either. Went trolling for a solution that I could plugin to both StudioPress (client a) and c.bavota magazine premium (client b referred to me by client a).

I still haven’t found the solution that could (plugin) to either theme, however, I did like the look of this plugin (that doesn’t work with either).

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-post-add-on/installation/

Would like to find a way to make it work in either, or hard edit them to work with it (requires a change to Studiopress lib/formating.php file )

still searching thats when I came across your article but didn’t see your own solution if it is published yet…

By: BANAGO

BANAGO — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:51:06 +0000

If you want to hear my opinion, I don’t like any of those solutions, that’s why I have come up with my solution which I’m going to make public in a post soon.

By: Martyr2

Martyr2 — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:24:24 +0000

Normally I don’t comment on code I find like this, but C.bavota’s “fix” is actually a bit clumbsy and full of problems.

1) They tack on the ellipses but then strips it out using the preg_replace. It also strips out all periods in the content. [.+] matches one or more periods.

2) Then what is with the line str_replace(‘]]>’, ‘]]>’, $content);? This is looking for ]]> and replacing it with ]]>? Useless line.

Remove that last line and fix up the preg_replace and you will have a much more solid solution.