Excerpts vs content

  • scubakevin

    (@scubakevin)


    14 years, 8 months ago

    Hello and good morning,

    I have two photography blogs each with the same version of wordpress and both with the same theme installed. Modularity from GPP.

    On the homepage of the website I want to show only an excerpt and featured image for each of the posts with “Read More” for those who want to see the content. I was instructed to edit the apps/featured.php file changing “the_content” to “the_excerpt” which I did on both websites and on one it works sort of and on the other it doesn’t.

    The weird thing is on one I can manually create an excerpt from the add post or edit post under the content there is the “excerpt area” where you can copy and paste the part that you want to show. But on the other website there is no “excerpt area” below the add post or edit post field to create a manual excerpt.

    Yes both are running everything the same from versions to up to date themes. Any thoughts?

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    But on the other website there is no “excerpt area” below the add post or edit post field to create a manual excerpt.

    on the ‘edit post’ page in the dashboard, click the ‘screen options’ tab near the top right, and tick ‘excerpt’

    Thread Starter scubakevin

    (@scubakevin)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    Yeah thanks I found that after making the post but I continue to have some issues related to the appearance of the excerpts.

    http://www.jaimestolzfotografo.com appears fine with excerpts and all that while http://www.sexyfotografia.com appears without excerpts (full content) on the home page. For example it seems that the teaser doesn’t work at all.

    Thread Starter scubakevin

    (@scubakevin)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    Yeah I found the solution, apart from changing “the_content” to “the_excerpt” in the apps/feature.php file for the blog entries to show excerpts you also need to make that same change to apps/blog.php so that not only the feature post shows only excerpts but also the blog entries.

    The one thing that I haven’t figured out is how to make the blog excerpts and feature excerpt show the “featured image” as designated in the post itself, here I had to define the image in full size from the media files and place it in the manual excerpt field itself.

    What it seems like is that the featured image in the excerpts is not defined and i haven’t found where to define it so far in the blog.php or feature.php file.

    Regards All.

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