Hi, I just solved it by installing the plugin, excerpts editor. I have a PHP programmer friend take a look at it & couldn't solve the problem.
Kathy On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Krusty Ruffle < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
