Use custom excerpt else where

[parcyvall]

Hi Support,

I use a PHP Widget to display post Info in the sidebar. It’s easy to reference the post excerpt but as there is a custom excerpt which is used on the blog and category page I would love to use that instead.

What function do I need to add to the Widget to reference the custom excerpt for the current post?

(For the “normal” excerpt the code is <?php the_excerpt(); ?> )

Kind regards
Simon

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
Which widget is used by at sidebar ? Please attach some screenshot so i can get exactly .
Thanks

[parcyvall]

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[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

HI,
Please use code like that

<?php 
global $post; $postID = $post->ID
echo $custom_excerpt = get_post_meta($postID, 'sf_custom_excerpt', true);
?>

[parcyvall]

Hi,

the code returns the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘echo’ (T_ECHO) in /mounted-storage/home159/sub021/sc84799-QMXY/parcyvall.com/2014/wp-content/plugins/php-text-widget/plugin.php(18) : eval()’d code on line 3

I tried several methods of loading the code, so it might be a problem with the code. Could you help with that?

Kind regards
Simon

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
Please use this one ,i missed closing statement .

<?php 
global $post; $postID = $post->ID;
echo $custom_excerpt = get_post_meta($postID, 'sf_custom_excerpt', true);
?>

[parcyvall]

Works great. Thanks for your time!

kind regards
Simon

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Thanks Mohammad!

– Kyle

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
You most welcome .
Cheers! 😀
With Best Regards
Swift Ideas

[parcyvall]

Sorry to bother you again.

I would like to use the Thumbnail Image in the same Widget, again it’s quite easy to get the regular Featured Image but I don’t know the Swiftframework-Code.

Could you help with that?

Kind regards
Simon

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

HI,
You can use regular Featured Image . It will work 100% sure .

Thanks

[parcyvall]

Hi,

When I try to get the SF-Thumbnail with the regular wordpress-code for Featured Image <?php the_post_thumbnail( $size, $attr ); ?> it get’s me the standard Featured Image (or nothing if none is set) and not the SF-Thumbnail.

To show you which thumbnail I mean, I attached a screenshot.

Kind regards
Simon

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
Please code like that

global $post;
$postID = $post->ID;
$media_width  = 150;
$media_height = 150;
$use_thumb_content= false;
echo sf_image_post($postID, $media_width, $media_height,$use_thumb_content);

Thanks

[parcyvall]

Hi, two problems with that.
1. This loads a seemingly random image I used a couple revisions ago. But have since exchanged.
2. The Image is square (because of media_width and media_height). I need the image aspect ratio to be responsive to the Image dimensions so that a horizontal image stays horizontal etc.

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
Please try this code

$media_image = get_post_thumbnail_id();
if ($media_image) {
$image_id = $media_image;
$media_image_url = wp_get_attachment_url( $media_image, 'full' );
$detail_image = aq_resize( $media_image_url, 150,150, true, false);// you can change 150 to any height and width 
if ($detail_image) {
$image = '<img itemprop="image" src="'.$detail_image[0].'" width="'.$detail_image[1].'" height="'.$detail_image[2].'" alt="'.$image_alt.'" />';
}
echo $image;
}

Thanks