https://gist.github.com/banago/4023646

[php]
<!–?php <br ?–> /**
* Get first paragraph from a WordPress post. Use inside the Loop.
*
* @return string
*/
function get_first_paragraph(){
global $post;

$str = wpautop( get_the_content() );
$str = substr( $str, 0, strpos( $str, ‘

‘ ) + 4 );
$str = strip_tags($str, ‘<a><strong><em>’);</em></strong></a>

return ‘

‘ . $str . ‘

‘;
}
[/php]