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supporti found this good plugin and start to use it instead of special recent posts, that ends its support. I found flexible recent posts very easily customizable and with many other good functions i’m really appreciating. The only problem i got is that the except lenght doesn’t work and recent posts show in widget with the global setting of template or Advanced excerpt plugin (i hadn’t this kind of problem with srp). Is there a way to force the frp excerpt lenght with some filter in functions.php or anything else? OT: is an “exclude category” function planned in the near future? http://wordpress.org/plugins/flexible-recent-posts/
So you insert something like this [frp_excerpt length="15"] to template in settings, but the excerpt length is not 15?
yes, i set a custom lenght in frp widget, but it’s ignored and overrided by excerpt lenght global setting
Hi, Love your plugin overall, but am having the same issue. Perhaps it’s due to a conflict with the theme’s custom excerpt function (the theme I’m using is “Responsive”): function responsive_excerpt_length( $length ) { return 40; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘responsive_excerpt_length’ ); Any ideas on how this could be fixed?
Hi again, So sorry, there’s no issue. It was my mistake. I realized the posts (which were imported from someone’s previous blog) all contained a ‘more’ tag, which of course was interfering with the length (while being stripped from the default WordPress excerpt). Plugin works perfectly. Rated 5 stars 🙂
I have this same problem. Using the latest version of the plugin, WordPress 3.8.1 and a child theme of Twenty Thirteen. I put [frp_excerpt length=”5″] into the template box in the widget. It just gives me the entire excerpt and doesn’t cut it off. It doesn’t matter what I set the length to. I am not using More tags. Any answers?
Will fix this bug soon. I have not enough time now.
tcs.minten , it’s default behaviour of WordPress. If you set custom excerpt during edit – it won’t be trimmed. I have just set (in version 1.0.4) higher priority to excerpt length filter and now themes will not override it.
So you insert something like this [frp_excerpt length="15"] to template in settings, but the excerpt length is not 15?
yes, i set a custom lenght in frp widget, but it’s ignored and overrided by excerpt lenght global setting
Hi, Love your plugin overall, but am having the same issue. Perhaps it’s due to a conflict with the theme’s custom excerpt function (the theme I’m using is “Responsive”): function responsive_excerpt_length( $length ) { return 40; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘responsive_excerpt_length’ ); Any ideas on how this could be fixed?
Hi again, So sorry, there’s no issue. It was my mistake. I realized the posts (which were imported from someone’s previous blog) all contained a ‘more’ tag, which of course was interfering with the length (while being stripped from the default WordPress excerpt). Plugin works perfectly. Rated 5 stars 🙂
I have this same problem. Using the latest version of the plugin, WordPress 3.8.1 and a child theme of Twenty Thirteen. I put [frp_excerpt length=”5″] into the template box in the widget. It just gives me the entire excerpt and doesn’t cut it off. It doesn’t matter what I set the length to. I am not using More tags. Any answers?
Will fix this bug soon. I have not enough time now.
tcs.minten , it’s default behaviour of WordPress. If you set custom excerpt during edit – it won’t be trimmed. I have just set (in version 1.0.4) higher priority to excerpt length filter and now themes will not override it.