Specific, Truncated Content in Custom Front Page

[jaxweb]

In my custom front page i want to call the truncated content from specific posts. I know the code to call the whole content, I know the code to call the excerpt of an exact post. I don't want to use the excerpt box in the backend, so i either want to use the pull the content prior to the 'read more' tag, or use Genesis 'Content archives > Display: Entry content -> Limit' settings to determine the truncated content i'm pulling.

[Christoph]

Hi,

the_excerpt() will use the "automatic" excerpt if there is no manual excerpt.
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/the_excerpt/

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[jaxweb]

For those who want to know what i did

Added this to my functions.php

function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
    return 30;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 9 );

function new_excerpt_more($more) {
	global $post;
	return '<a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">Read More</a>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

Then added this to where i was adding the excerpt in my front page php

$id = 14;
$temp = $post;
$post = get_post( $id );
setup_postdata( $post );
echo the_excerpt();

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