public function answer_row_actions($column, $post_id) { global $post, $mode; if ('answer_content' != $column) { return; } $content = get_the_excerpt(); // get the first 80 words from the content and added to the $abstract variable preg_match('/^([^.!?\\s]*[\\.!?\\s]+){0,40}/', strip_tags($content), $abstract); // pregmatch will return an array and the first 80 chars will be in the first element echo $abstract[0] . '...'; //First set up some variables $actions = array(); $post_type_object = get_post_type_object($post->post_type); $can_edit_post = current_user_can($post_type_object->cap->edit_post, $post->ID); //Actions to delete/trash if (current_user_can($post_type_object->cap->delete_post, $post->ID)) { if ('trash' == $post->post_status) { $_wpnonce = wp_create_nonce('untrash-post_' . $post_id); $url = admin_url('post.php?post=' . $post_id . '&action=untrash&_wpnonce=' . $_wpnonce); $actions['untrash'] = "<a title='" . esc_attr(__('Restore this item from the Trash')) . "' href='" . $url . "'>" . __('Restore') . "</a>"; } elseif (EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS) { $actions['trash'] = "<a class='submitdelete' title='" . esc_attr(__('Move this item to the Trash')) . "' href='" . get_delete_post_link($post->ID) . "'>" . __('Trash') . "</a>"; } if ('trash' == $post->post_status || !EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS) { $actions['delete'] = "<a class='submitdelete' title='" . esc_attr(__('Delete this item permanently')) . "' href='" . get_delete_post_link($post->ID, '', true) . "'>" . __('Delete Permanently') . "</a>"; } } if ($can_edit_post) { $actions['edit'] = '<a href="' . get_edit_post_link($post->ID, '', true) . '" title="' . esc_attr(sprintf(__('Preview “%s”'), $post->title)) . '" rel="permalink">' . __('Edit') . '</a>'; } //Actions to view/preview if (in_array($post->post_status, array('pending', 'draft', 'future'))) { if ($can_edit_post) { $actions['view'] = '<a href="' . esc_url(add_query_arg('preview', 'true', get_permalink($post->ID))) . '" title="' . esc_attr(sprintf(__('Preview “%s”'), $post->title)) . '" rel="permalink">' . __('Preview') . '</a>'; } } elseif ('trash' != $post->post_status) { $actions['view'] = '<a href="' . get_permalink($post->ID) . '" title="' . esc_attr(__('View “%s” question')) . '" rel="permalink">' . __('View') . '</a>'; } //***** END -- Our actions *******// //Echo the 'actions' HTML, let WP_List_Table do the hard work $WP_List_Table = new WP_List_Table(); echo $WP_List_Table->row_actions($actions); }