Textpattern Resources: kgr_safe

It’s designed to operate like Movable Type’s handling of excerpts, in that it will return the excerpt for an article if it exists, otherwise it will only return the first 20 words (but the number of words is configurable).

You can configure the number of words with the “words”? parameter to the tag:
<txp:kgr_safe_excerpt words="50" linktext="Continue reading..." />

I’ll add an option to turn the permalink off entirely in the next version.

Initially released:

2004-07-11

Posted here:

08 Apr 2005

Article modified:

12 Aug 2007

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Commented (9)

Mark:

Would love to try this plugin out, except the referenced URL only contains:

Not much help!

posted on 15 May 2005, 18:16 PM

alicson:

? the referenced URL contains the plugin.

posted on 15 May 2005, 18:37 PM

joe:

what is the syntax to use within the article tag in order to use the plugin? I can’t get it to actually work.

here is how i have it set up
< code>
< txp:article />
< txp:if_individual_article>
< txp:kgr_safe_excerpt words="50" linktext="More>>” />
< p>
< txp:link_to_prev>< /txp:link_to_prev>
< txp:link_to_next>< txp:next_title />< /txp:link_to_next>
< /p>
< /txp:if_individual_article>
< txp:if_article_list>
< p>
< txp:older>Previous
< txp:newer>Next
< /p>
< /txp:if_article_list>
< /code>

thanks!

posted on 31 August 2005, 15:00 PM

Kurt Raschke:

joe,

The example above looks fine—it should work. I’m not sure why it wouldn’t work. Maybe the plugin broke under 4.0? I’m not actually using the plugin anymore on my own site, so I’m not sure if it still works under the latest Textpattern versions. If I get a chance I’ll check it out later.

-Kurt

posted on 03 September 2005, 11:24 AM

Ross Harvey:

Works a treat for me. TXP 4.0.1.

Thanks :¬)

posted on 15 September 2005, 09:31 AM

Kurt Raschke:

Since I can’t seem to figure out how to edit the information above, be advised that the URL for this plugin has changed:

http://www.raschke.net/~kurt/s/software/textpattern/plugins/kgr_safe_excerpt.txt

-Kurt

posted on 12 January 2006, 21:58 PM

Hynek Zatloukal: