Comments on: Homepage Excerpts WordPress Plugin

By: Spunky Jones

Spunky Jones — Sun, 08 May 2011 17:26:51 +0000

Have there been any updates to this plugin since you posted this article? Currently, I have been using the “Read More” and looking for something to create the snippet automatically.

By: MediaGrow

MediaGrow — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:55:12 +0000

Hi Daniel
Great plugin for helping to stop duplicate content, very useful if you have a lot of articles and if someone else is using your article,

Thank you

Marios

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:48:02 +0000

Hello,
I really like this plugin. I have it set to show excerpts for all articles except the 1st on my homepage. It shows the 1st full length, even if I have an “Insert More” tag to break up the article.

I would really like the ability to use the insert more tag to inspire people to click through and open the actual article rather than reading it all on the home page.

In some cases, I’ve had people link to my homepage instead of the actual post, which is not best for SEO.

Is there an easy way to accomplish this?

By: Tattoo Artwork

Tattoo Artwork — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:02:06 +0000

This is a great plugin and I’m surely use it on one of my blogs. Because I’m new to the bloging world I want to find a plugins that will really help me to make my blog looks better and promote it in the web. I heard a lot about SEO but I don’t really know how to optimize my website. Thank to your plugin I’m one step ahead with SEO and optimization.

By: Dodfr

Dodfr — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:37:05 +0000

Take care with this, strip_tags is a php function that remove as much html tags as possible but this mean it will fake the word count (in my previous comment I said I was new to WP but I am PHP developper) in the plugin php source before explode function you have :

output = strip_tags($output);
explode(‘ ‘, $output, $nr_word);
count($words);

this mean that all html tags are removed, then full text is exploded into an array using space as separator for each array entry, then the number of array entries is counted so this will give you the words count.

If you do what you say, removing strip_tags, this will leave hml tags make wrong word count, for example if you set 1 word count and your text begin with a word that is enclosed between a BOLD tag pair with a space separator before the word, then you’ll get an array with BOLD tag as first entry as “word number 1″, but not your real word that will be at position 2 in the array.

Then once the text is recontructed, only the first word will be showed and this is a BOLD tag so you’ll not get you real word and…worst…is may fake all the rest of your page.