Comments on: Putting the_content() into a PHP Variable

By: Jens TÃ¶rnell

Jens TÃ¶rnell — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:44:30 +0000

Hi! I figured out another way of doing this. Look at my post "get_the_content WITH formatting".

By: Angelus

Angelus — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:18:51 +0000

get_the_content , don’t have all content , end of line isn’t formatted in that function

By: Daniel15

Daniel15 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:26:22 +0000

Note that this will not work if output buffering is already in use on the site.

Also, I’m sure there’s a function that returns the number of words in a string… No need to use that explode method. And if there’s no function for it, using substr_count should be faster than count(explode()) :P

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:15:45 +0000

That last bit of code for removing the p-tags would come in handy but where does it go? In the wordpress loop or in the functions.php file or…?

By: John

John — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:16:29 +0000

shame on you chris. kidding

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:47:31 +0000

Honestly I didn’t know about it! =)

I thank everyone for pointing it out. Obviously, that is far easier.

And yes, I’ve been in the middle of moving and most of these comments were stuck in moderation, sorry about that!

By: John

John — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:49:08 +0000

I might be wrong but after following Chris for the last few years I would think that he knows about the “get_the_content()” function and has some weird reasoning behind doing it another way. I am waiting to hear his response to this. So Chris when you read this please do me a favor and let me know one way or the other.

By: John

John — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:46:03 +0000

wasn’t trying to sound upset or mean I just got tired of reading the same comments over and over. I am not trying to stop anyone from commenting because that is what makes blogs like this informative. I just hate when people read a post and then drop right to the bottom (without reading any other comments) and start bashing a quality post apart.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:40:33 +0000

Sorry, not our fault. Everyone made comment without seeing rest because they were all stuck in moderation. Then bulk approval and we all look bit stupid. :)

By: John

John — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:17:57 +0000

Enough already with the “get_the_content()” jabber. We get it wordpress has a function set up to pull in the content without using a buffer. WordPress uses get_ for returning almost any function inside the loop without echoing out to the browser. comes in handy for conditional statements.