New Plugin: Content Extract

Which link? The one in the message above certainly works (just tried it again), and the link to the downloadable on that page does also…

Gremlins??

Rob

Glad you were able to get in…

Some further ideas have just been incorporated into a b2 version of the plugin…

The ability to specify check and cut lengths as numbers of sentences, rather than numbers of words. If you specify just numbers for these limits then they will be interpreted as words, howver, if you specify them as strings, with the format:

‘n:s’, that is, a number followed by ‘:s’

then it will be interpreted as ‘n sentences’, and the check/cut made accordingly.

The second addition involves a small interface change, with the fourth argument (still boolean), determining whether the auto-generated extract gets written out to the ‘post_excerpt’ field for the post in question. The default is ‘false’, but the intent is to allow for auto-excerpts and minimising processing for subsequent loads of a post through this plugin.

Full details have been posted to the Content Extract support page.

Comments welcome.

Best regards

Rob

Hi,

I’ve just uploaded the b3 version of the Content Extract plugin for WordPress. This is largely a functional enhancement with the following new abilities:

• Ability to retain formatting in extracts
• Ability to force an update if there already exists an excerpt within the database entry for a post
• Beefed up sentence counting, though this could still stand some improvement.

Full details are on the Content Extract support page.

Cheers

Rob