[Help Wordpress] Post excerpt cannot display properly

Hi,

I managed to figure it out, i wrote this custom function the_content ... but i think its strange your plugin doesnt output the normal except like other themes and plugins, i mean if you don't write an exceprt (the box is empty) it usually resorts to the Wordpress automatic excerpt

// Create PHP class that will hold methods
class MyRoyalSliderRendererHelper {
    private $post;
    private $options;

    function __construct( $data, $options ) {
        // $data variable holds WordPress post object only for Posts Slider
        // for other types sliders it holds just data associated with slide, print it to see what's inside
        $this->post = $data;

        // slider options (that you choose in right sidebar)
        $this->options = $options;
    }
    
    function the_content() {
       
       $excerpt = apply_filters('the_content', strip_tags($this->post->post_content));
       $excerpt = preg_replace(" (\[.*?\])",'',$excerpt);
       $excerpt = strip_shortcodes($excerpt);
       $excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, 80);
       $excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, strripos($excerpt, " "));
       $excerpt = trim(preg_replace( '/\s+/', ' ', $excerpt));
       $excerpt = $excerpt.'...';
       return $excerpt;
       
       
    }
   
    function post_id() {
        return $this->post->ID;
    }
}

3 MORE QUESTIONS BUT!,

See this site, http://stabmag.com/

I want to be able to scroll say a slideshow with 4 thumbnails total wide, but not just one thumbnail at a time.. I want to scroll the whole 4? how could i do this, also some sort of Instagram option would be awesome also!

And also in this slideshow they output the first image on every post,

- Any tutorials on how to make a custom Video Slideshow but using the Latest Posts?? the Video URL would come from custom field or meta . Like this would be perfect.....

http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/royal-slider/video-gallery/

Thanks,

Great plugin by the way very versatile!!

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