Reply To: Can't get Excerpts to work

• fabucklin

• October 9, 2021 at 10:35 pm

Hi Jarvis,

I have the same problem of the first post, I did the following:
I have pasted this code in functions.php:

function custom_field_excerpt() {
global $post;
$text = get_field(‘extracto’);
if ( ” != $text ) {
$text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
$text = apply_filters(‘the_content’, $text);
$text = str_replace(‘]]>’, ‘]]>’, $text);
$excerpt_length = 20; // 20 words
$excerpt_more = apply_filters(‘excerpt_more’, ‘ ‘ . ‘[…]’);
$text = wp_trim_words( $text, $excerpt_length, $excerpt_more );
}
return apply_filters(‘the_excerpt’, $text);
}

extracto is the name of the field

and pasted this, in archive.php

echo custom_field_excerpt();

but it doesn’t work… the default post element doesn’t recognize this field as the excerpt, I don’t know what is wrong, the field itself must contain some special type or something? right now is a common text field.

Help please!