[wp-hackers] Filter post (the_content),
but not excerpt (the_excerpt)
Aaron D. Campbell
wp-hackers at ezdispatch.com
Wed Jan 10 19:47:53 GMT 2007
Aaron D. Campbell wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how I can filter a posts content, without
> filtering an excerpt. I know that I can check is_archive to see if
> I'm in an archive (which usually uses excerpts), but it seems like
> there must be a way to do this. I tried attaching to the_excerpt, and
> setting a static variable that my function attached to the_content
> could check, but it seems that the "the_content" filters are executed
> BEFORE the the_excerpt filters. Is there some way to do this now, or
> can we set some sort of variable that can be used to see if WordPress
> is going to turn the post into an excerpt?
Well, I didn't get a response, but I DID find the solution. It was to
put a priority of one on the filter that I attached to 'get_the_excerpt'
You can see it used in my Attachment Manager Plugin:
http://xavisys.com/blog/2007/01/05/wordpress-attachment-manager-plugin/
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