Okay, here is what's happening: I'm testing stuff so I'm inserting text with a firefox lipsum extension, it leaves trailing newlines after inserting text. If you select the text in the excerpt input on the edit post page and miss the newline it will cause empty strings to be returned in pages that use excerpts, if you update it a second time the problem will be fixed.
I think it's trimming the excerpt text when it sets the value for the input in the edit page, but I'm guessing it doesn't when it saves the data on update. At any rate I know what causes the problem and can now avoid it in several ways, if my skills were more advanced I would try to track it down, submit a bug report, make a patch and all that stuff. Unfortunately I am a very amateur PHP hacker type so I'll have to leave it at that and hope that this thread does some good for someone somewhere along the line. Thanks again for the help and suggestions, if there's anything more I can do I'd be more than glad to try! _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
