Thanks for responding so quickly. I’ve been trying this for a day and lost a couple of patches of hair in the process.

I changed the quote marks and placed the copy and pasted code in my functions folder. Here’s what it currently looks like:

function homepage_excerpt($text = ‘ ‘) { // Fakes an excerpt if needed
if ( ” == $text ) {
$text = get_the_content(”);
$text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
$text = apply_filters(‘the_content’, $text);
$text = preg_replace(‘@.*?@si’, ”, $text); //remove javascript
$text = preg_replace(‘@@’, ‘ ‘, $text); // remove CDATA, html comments
$text = str_replace(‘]]>’, ‘]]>’, $text);
$text = strip_tags($text, ‘ ‘);
$excerpt_length = 25;
$words = explode(‘ ‘, $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
array_pop($words);
array_push($words, ‘[...]‘);
$text = implode(‘ ‘, $words);
}
return $text;
}

remove_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘wp_trim_excerpt’);
add_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘homepage_excerpt’);

Basically I am trying to get different excerpt functions working so I can call excerpts of different lengths onto different pages.

(I’m building a magazine CMS version of wordpress and your code seemed the cleanest)

I keep getting this error though:

Warning: Missing argument 1 for homepage_excerpt(), called in /home/site/public_html/testblog/wp-content/themes/pdmag1108/home.php on line 54 and defined in /home/site/public_html/testblog/wp-content/themes/pdmag1108/functions.php on line 565

Did you just copy and past the function? (If so, you need to change the quote marks to single quotes, wordpress prints them weird). If you did, then your text variable isn’t set for some reason. You can try changing it to $text = '' within the function:

function themename_trim_excerpt($text = '')

Warning: Missing argument 1. Any idea why?