Post styles stripped out

Thank you, @d4z_c0nf – your second link in particular helped me but I was a bit shocked to discover that WP thinks this is good default behaviour. I’m trying to think of a “benefit” in stripping out text style tags and hyperlinks but I’m coming up empty — unless it was just too difficult to auto-close tags if the except happened to slice a style in half…

But judging by your second link, and the comments thereto, it’s achievable. Unfortunately php stuff is some way above my pay grade unless I grab a Customizr snippet. I think I like the look of the code in the final comment – but I don’t know exactly what it will do:
[code] function my_trim_excerpt($text) { global $post; if ( ‘’ == $text ) { $text = get_the_content(‘’); $text = apply_filters(‘the_content’, $text); $text = str_replace(‘]]>’, ‘]]>’, $text); $text = preg_replace(‘@]?>.?@si’, ‘’, $text); $text = strip_tags($text, ‘’); $excerpt_length = 30; $words = explode(‘ ‘, $text, $excerpt_length + 1); if (count($words)> $excerpt_length) { array_pop($words); $atag_count = 0; foreach($words as $word) { if(strpos($word, ‘<a') !== false || strpos($word, '') !== false || strpos($word, '/A>')) { $atag_count--; } } for($i=0; $i<$atag_count; $i++) { array_push($words, '</a>'); } array_push($words, '...'); $text = implode(' ', $words); } } return $text; } [/code]

Thanks! That’s an even better link. I might risk playing with the code in my child theme — after a stiff drink or two.

Still not sure why WP does it this way. The default behaviour is just ugly imho.

Thanks – I did see that code and will try it out. I just hope it doesn’t need any modification as I can’t read/understand php so not sure what this snippet will give me…