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A Brief Update

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Wow. We have been super blessed and super busy with our focus on Shadetree–our open source response to a need expressed by church and led by God for spiritual formation of the believer and ‘connectedness with a purpose’. Though we can account for our time well spent on a great tool, seeing that evidenced in our blog is, more challenging.

So, our ask that you ignore this gap of writing and know that we have been busy, otherwise engaged. Our writing efforts have gone to the energy required under the monumental task we are with…but we have missed talking with you.

To this end, we have a handful of posts to at least get us into the New Year, gaining some consistency in something that we struggle around to some degree, writing. We would love to hear from you if there is something you want to us to focus on.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving friends!

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Changing Wordpress the_excerpt tag

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

I love Wordpress and everything that the tool lets you do. A friend/client hit us up today asking how he could get rid of the default “[...]” text at the end of the Wordpress the_excerpt tag. I figured this may be a pretty common question, so I decided to share the solution here. I know I am not the only one to figure this out, but here is what I did:

  • Login to the Wordpress backend (with admin rights) and click on the arrow next to the appearance tab
  • Click on the “editor” link
  • In the right column find the Theme Functions (functions.php) file and click on it to edit
  • Add in the following function right before the closing “?>” php tag. We utilized the add_filter tag to replace the “[...]” with “Read More ยป”. You’ll notice we also added in the permalink so you can click on the link to actually read more.
    function change_excerpt($excerpt)
    {
    return str_replace('[...]', '<br /><a href="'.get_permalink().'">Read More &raquo</a>', $excerpt);
    }
    add_filter('the_excerpt', 'change_excerpt');
  • Finally, go do something nice for yourself because you have now globally changed the_excerpt tag for this template

Hope this helps someone.

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