Plugin No Longer Showing Excerpts
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Hello – I’m a fan of this plugin to repost content across a WordPress multisite. It’s been really handy for a couple of years.
Recently, however, the excerpts I’m using (which are iframes of podcast audio player) are no longer showing up on andysteiger.com when reposting it from another location on this multisite (https://apologeticscanada.com/podcasts/).
After reading this post – https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/network-posts-lost-from-view/ – I switched back to an earlier version of the plugin, but this still seemed to be an issue.
Is there a way to fix this so that the excerpts are visible?
many thanks,
JacobThe page I need help with: [log in to see the link]
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That is correct. On auto_excerpt the plugin strips all html tags because of the problems it created. The page it was rendering it on (with some themes) mis-construed a closing </p> or </div> and screwed up the whole page. Tell him to put the iframe in the manual excerpt and remove auto_excerpt=’true’ from the shortcode. Sorry but no way I can fix this because of the problems it may cause.
The plugin does not strip the html tags from the manual excerpt field since it is safer.
Jacob;
On this post: https://apologeticscanada.com/2020/08/13/parenting-in-a-technological-age-part-2/ in the manual excerpt field I just copied the first paragraph and put it in the manual excerpt field plus the iframe. Notice how much cleaner it looks?
The manual excerpt field looks as such:
<p style="font-weight:300;">When we deal with children and adolescents, what are our tendencies? For many of us, we find it tricky to discern just how "adult-like" we should treat them. Now, throw into the mix the parenting challenges that comes with online technology and smart devices. How does screen time relate to the brain and social development of our children - young and old - and what might be some practical tips we may put into practice? Andy continues his dialogue with Alisha Stobbe, Marriage and Family Therapist, in Part 2 of Parenting in a Technological Age.</p><p><iframe src="https://player.blubrry.com?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fapologeticscanada%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fapologeticscanada%2FAC_Podcast_299_Final.mp3" scrolling="no" width="100%" height="90px" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>Now on the auto_excerpt the beaverbuilder headers just come up as text. Nothing the plugin can do because the beaver builder only works on the site it is installed on. This plugin can only see it as text.
If these posts are auto generated I’m sorry but there’s no fix. That’s why I stripped the html tags so stuff like that won’t show. I have turned off stripping the html tags by setting
strip_excerpt_tags='false'. But now you see the problems that it can cause. If you have time I highly recommend your blog admins to take advantage of the manual excerpt field.Jacob;
One more thing you may do on the Andy Steiger page is use html to hide the:
[wpbb post:title] is by using some custom css.
Add the following to wherever you add custom css. I’ll give you two examples.
.netsposts-excerpt h1:first-of-type { display: none; }If you only want it to work on the home page add the following:
.home .netsposts-ecerpt h1:first-of-type { display: none; }
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