Crisis normally create a great environment for quick learning. Some would say that it also exposes lack of planing, which in my experience both are equally true. Last week I had a server’s HD die on me and I suddenly had to rescue some of the newer data that for some stupid reason I had [...]

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the get_excerpt function on WordPress shows the first 55 words of your post, striped out of any special formatting eg: links, bold, etc.  I wanted to change it for a blog I was developing so I traced it back to the function wp_trim_excerpt in the file \wp-includes\formatting.php. In this file you can change the value [...]

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