http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/sorry-me-again-newscast-sidebar-news Support Forum - Topic: Sorry me again - Newscast sidebar news en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:38:33 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.kriesi.at/support/search.php http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/sorry-me-again-newscast-sidebar-news#post-25329 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:32:18 +0000 Dude 25329@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Glad that I could help you :) </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/sorry-me-again-newscast-sidebar-news#post-25287 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:05:03 +0000 albertramsbottom 25287@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Worked great</p> <p>:) </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/sorry-me-again-newscast-sidebar-news#post-25255 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:40:44 +0000 Dude 25255@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Hey,<br /> open up newscast\framework\theme_widgets\sidebar_news.php and replace </p> <pre><code>the_excerpt();</code></pre> <p>with:<br /> <pre><code>$content = get_the_excerpt(); echo substr(strip_tags($content), 0, 200);</code></pre> <p>You can replace "200" with any (positive) value - it controls the amount of characters. </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/sorry-me-again-newscast-sidebar-news#post-25230 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:25:21 +0000 albertramsbottom 25230@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Is it possible to restrict the amount of characters so I can get just a snippet of news when I use this?</p> <p>Cheers </p>