External page to output post snippets with excerpt

[palmtree]

Hello Code Master,

I am trying to create an external custom page within the theme to output post snippets. So far I have sorted out output category name, number of post, permalink and title etc but I am having difficulty to output image and excerpt which I want the same or at least similar way to the invent default output method. For the excerpt, I don’t want to use <?php the_excerpt(); ?> because the number of output characters don’t match with the theme default excerpt and also it doesn’t output “…” at the end. I’ve tried something like <? echo mo_truncate_string(get_the_excerpt(), $excerpt_count); ?> but didn’t work. It would be so great if you could give me advise.

Thank you very much.
Palmtree

[Veena]

This should work –

echo mo_truncate_string(get_the_excerpt(), $excerpt_count);

Are you trying to create a custom post type?

Can you try this –

echo wp_trim_words( get_the_excerpt(), 20);

– https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_trim_words

[palmtree]

Thank you phoenix for your reply.
The first one worked but only printed first one word and followed by “…”.
So I have modified it to something like <?php echo mo_truncate_string(get_the_excerpt(), 200) . '..'; ?> And it seems like working now… But I don’t get how this 200 really mean. Because by changing this value to 400 doesn’t make output text volume doubled. Also I had to put two dots (one less) '..' to output three dots.

Could I also ask about thumnail image?
<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail(); } ?> This one works but is that the same method as invent theme default snippet image output?

I want the output method to be consistent to the default one..

Any of your advise is appreciated:D!

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