Custom WordPress Excerpt not adding <p> tags

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I’m in a bit of a sticky situation with a custom excerpt function I’m using.

Here’s a link to the Pastebin with the Custom Excerpt Function: http://pastebin.com/gK0AWQbt

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This is the blog index using the function: http://club16.abcguide.com/blog/

Also, the code I’m using here is: <?php echo excerpt(300); ?>

And here’s the post on the single page, with proper formatting: http://club16.abcguide.com/newsletters/jan-2012/

Essentially the excerpt function I’m using isn’t generating my <p> tags around elements, I’m not sure how I can modify the function to have it do this efficiently.

Also, if I can have more control of when the excerpt ends (maybe even per post? If I could make it identify a specific class and cut there..) that would be amazing.

But focusing on the task at hand, I’m in dire need of a solution!

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  1. By default excerpt shows first 55 characters and it strips out all html tags. If you want to increase the length of the excerpt function then you can us a filter like one given bellow, just add this code snippet in your functions.php file of your theme and wrap the function call inside a p tag in the index.php file.

    function new_excerpt_length($length) 
{
    return 300;
}
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');

    Use the_excerpt() instead of the_excerpt(300) in your index.php file inside the p tag.

    <p class="someclass"> <?php the_excerpt(); ?> </p>