Skipping characters for summarytext

[maarten19855]

Hi,

The first X characters on every post are always the same. So for the summary shown in the search results for ajax search pro I would like to skip X characters by default. How can I set a default characters to skip before taking the content shown in the results? Or perhaps add some code at the beginning of the paragraph I want to show per page?

Both can be seen when you use my main ajax search box on the website provided.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

• This topic was modified 10 years, 6 months ago by maarten19855.

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi!

Only by using a custom code, but luckily you don’t have to edit any of the plugin files, so this should be update-proof as well.

Try putting this code to your currently active theme folder, into the functions.php file:

[php]
add_filter( ‘asp_result_content_after_prostproc’, ‘asp_cut_from_content’, 1, 1 );

function asp_cut_from_content( $content ) {
// Change this to the number of characters you want to cut
$charaters_to_cut = 50;

return substr($content, $charaters_to_cut);

}
[/php]

Change the $characters_to_cut variable to the number of characters you want to remove from the beginning.

[maarten19855]

Thanks for the reply and the code Ernest. It seems to work fine with just 50 characters to skip. But when I choose to skip the first 600 characters it doesn’t show the description. The only thing showing is the title of the page. Is there a max characters to which the plugin uses the description. I need it to skip the first 600 characters.

[Ernest Marcinko]

Yes, you probably need to increase the description length. By default it’s 130 characters. You can change that on the Layout Options -> Results Layout panel with the Description (content) length option. I recommed trying like 730 at first, and perhaps increasing it until you start seeing the description.

[maarten19855]

Ah, why didn’t I think of that :). Thanks, it works perfectly now!

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