[wp-hackers] return automatic excerpt?

[Computer Guru]

Yeah, but the_content does just that.
It outputs the excerpt + a read more link.

Computer Guru
NeoSmart Technologies
http://neosmart.net/blog/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Michael B
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 1:02 AM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] return automatic excerpt?
> 
> Well, as I said, I'm muddling my way through this.  But I'm not trying
> to
> get the content, rather the excerpt.  I can output the content via the
> method I'm using now.
> 
> ~miklb
> 
> On 11/2/06, Computer Guru <computerguru at neosmart.net> wrote:
> >
> > Why do it manually?
> >
> > Use the_content() to grab the post of your liking. It'll take care of
> all
> > that for you.
> >
> > To use the_content() just first run the SQL query that picks the post
> > number(s), then activate the_content() or get_the_content() depending
> on
> > your needs.
> >
> > Computer Guru
> > NeoSmart Technologies
> > http://neosmart.net/blog/
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> > > bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Michael B
> > > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 12:44 AM
> > > To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > > Subject: [wp-hackers] return automatic excerpt?
> > >
> > > I'm muddling my way through customizing a random post plugin to
> output
> > > the
> > > excerpt of a post with a read more link.  Currently it's only
> working
> > > if I
> > > put a manual excerpt in the post, how can I automatically output
> the
> > > excerpt.
> > >
> > > Here's the code I'm using:
> > > $listContent =    stripslashes(str_replace('"', '',
> > > $display->post_excerpt));
> > >
> > >                 //    Set up the return string
> > >                 if ( $before ) $result    .=    $before;
> > >                 $result  .=    '<a href="' .
> post_permalink($display-
> > > >ID) .
> > > '" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to &quot;' . $listTitle .
> > > '&quot;">'
> > > . $listTitle . '</a>'  . '<br />' . $listContent . '<a href="' .
> > > post_permalink($display->ID) . '" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent
> link
> > > to
> > > &quot;' . $listTitle . '&quot;">' . ' Read more' . '</a>' ;
> > >
> > > Currently I'm simply pulling the field via
> > > $postSQL =  "SELECT
> > > $wpdb->posts.post_excerpt";
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > >
> > > ~miklb
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