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Audio player in excerpt wordpress

I’m trying to display the audio player in the post excerpt in WordPress. On this website I found the following code that I added to functions.php:

/**
  * Create an excerpt that includes the audio for podcasts.
  * @return string The excerpt HTML
  */
 function wp_podcast_excerpt() {

     // Gets the post content
     $content = get_the_content();

     // Find the position of the audio shortcode in the content
     $audiopos = strpos($content,'[audio');

     if($audiopos) {

         // The excerpt is all the text up to and including the audio tag.
         $excerpt = substr($content, 0, strpos($content,'[/audio]'));

         // Apply wordpress filters.
         $excerpt = apply_filters('the_content', $excerpt);

         // Strip out images.
         $excerpt = preg_replace("/<img[^>]+>/i", "", $excerpt);

         echo $excerpt;

     } else {
         the_excerpt();
     }
 }

In the loop I have included:

<?php wp_podcast_excerpt(); ?>

This only shows the text and nothing else. What am I doing wrong?

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    I got the result I wanted. Here is the solutions.

    Add this to the functions.php:

    <?php add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'shortcode_unautop');
add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'do_shortcode'); ?>

    Then, inside the loop add:

    <?php echo do_shortcode("[audio]"); ?>

    All together it look like this:

        <?php

if ( have_posts() ) :
    while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

    <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>

    <?php the_title() ?>

            <?php the_excerpt() ?>

<?php echo do_shortcode("[audio]"); ?>
        
    <?php endwhile; ?>

  2. 0

    Your comment:

    The excerpt is all the text up to and including the audio tag.

    Is incorrect. At that point in time, $excerpt contains the text up to, but excluding the closing audio tag. I’d imagine you’d like to have this included in $excerpt, so that it is properly parsed by WordPress filters.

    You could do all manor of things to ensure that it’s included when applying filters. One very straight-forward way would be to increase substrs third parameter by an amount that equals the length of the string [/audio]:

    $closing_audio_tag = '[/audio]';

// The excerpt is all the text up to and including the audio tag.
$excerpt = substr(
    $content,
    0,
    strpos($content, $closing_audio_tag) + strlen($closing_audio_tag)
);
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