Reply To: Excerpt from relationship

• jordantrainor

• July 15, 2014 at 12:30 am

Hi Gleenk,

You need to add in global $post; and then it works fine. Here’s an example below of what I did for featured posts using the relationship field.

<div class="row home-featured-posts collapse">
	<?php 

	function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
		return 20;
	}
	add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

	remove_filter('the_excerpt', 'wpautop');
	function trim_excerpt($text) {
  return rtrim($text,'[&hellip;]');
}
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'trim_excerpt');

	global $post;

	$posts = get_field('featured_posts');
	 
	if( $posts ): ?>
	    <?php foreach( $posts as $post): ?>
	        <?php setup_postdata($post); ?>

	        <div class="small-12 medium-4 columns">
	            <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
	            	<?php the_post_thumbnail('small-letterbox'); ?>
	            </a>

            	<div>
            		<h3>
	            		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br>

	            		<small>
	            			By <?php the_author(); ?> / <?php the_time( get_option( 'date_format' ) ); ?>
	            		</small>
	            	</h3>

	            	<p>
	            		<?php the_excerpt(); ?>...
	            	</p>
	            	
	            	<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="read-more">Read more</a>
            	</div>
	        </div>

	    <?php endforeach; ?>
	    <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
	<?php endif; ?>
</div>