DS106, Feed WordPress, Jim Groom, and Alan Levine!

I feel like I’m time traveling back to the good old days of Mother Blogs.

Jim posted on Mastodon¹ about wanting to be able to display the WP excerpt on posts syndicated via Feed WordPress in a Noir-themed #DS106 course he’s teaching. It broke my heart to hear he was doing it by hand. I had a busy couple of days so I didn’t get to this until this morning but I put in a quick 14 minutes²

Alan has some other ways to make this work that I missed but I really wanted to do something WP-related and not AI so . . .

So to make this work, we wanted to only apply it to posts in the “film noir” category and only in archive view. A later addition was to keep the first image in the post.

function ds_noir_chopper($content){
   // Only run filter on single posts in main query

   if (has_category('Tech Noir') || has_category('tech-noir') && is_archive()) {      
      preg_match('/<img.+src=[\'"](?P<src>.+?)[\'"].*>/i', $content, $image);//img? 
      if($image){
         $image = $image[0];//if img, first img
      } else {
         $image = '';
      }
      $content = $image . get_the_excerpt();

      return $content;
   }
   else {
      return $content;
   }
}


add_filter('the_content', 'ds_noir_chopper', 200);