Actually I realise it might help to include the shortcode – the two versions are
[latest-selected-content limit=”1″ type=”post” display=”title,content” image=”thumbnail” url=”yes” elements=”13″ taxonomy=”category” orderby=”titleA”]
[latest-selected-content limit=”1″ type=”post” display=”title,excerpt” image=”thumbnail” url=”yes” elements=”13″ taxonomy=”category” orderby=”titleA”]
Hi, Ive now read through all the posts here and tried the solution you provided in one of your suggested solutions and now have the look right. The right amount of excerpt is now showing and the image and title are where I want them. Unfortunately, its now all a link! And the “read more” still does not show up. I can see its there in the code (I am not a coder, sadly) but it is not presenting still. So still needing your help, I’m afraid.
The shortcode that produces the excerpt is below:
[latest-selected-content limit=”3″ type=”post” display=”title,content-small” chrlimit=”380″ image=”thumbnail” url=”yes” elements=”11″ taxonomy=”category” orderby=”dateA”]
I have no idea what “elements=”11″” does but that is the number that organised the content the way I wanted. elements=”3″ – which was in the code you provided as answer to another query – did not provide the organisation I wanted, so I just experimented!!
Hi,
I was looking at the shortcodes you added above and none of these contain the read_more argument. The text for the read more link should be added explicit if you want that to be visible (the field will be available when configuring the shortcode). Please try that and check with another “elements” combination and let me know if that did the trick.
Hi – Im not sure I understand your guideline. I have taken another look at the configuration page and I cannot see an option to select “read more” What am I missing?
Thanks 🙂
Hi again – When I choose “link to the post” the “custom ‘read more’ message appears below it and is highlighted in yellow. I realise that is what you are referring to. At least I think it might be? And I have selected “link to post each time. Here is the latest output from the configuration:
[latest-selected-content limit=”1″ type=”post” display=”title,excerpt-small” chrlimit=”120″ image=”thumbnail” url=”yes” elements=”13″ orderby=”titleA”]
Maybe I could manually add in the needed code? Can you let me know what that needs to be? Thanks again
Hi,
Yes, that is the option, however, your have to add something to the input, like in the image https://www.dropbox.com/s/2s8bxw6qhnf3m7n/screenshot1.png?dl=0
Basically, after adding the read more text, my shortcode became (see the linktext):
[latest-selected-content limit="100" perpage="10" showpages="4" pagespos="2" display="date,title,content-small" chrlimit="120" image="thumbnail" url="yes" linktext="Add your custom read more text" elements="5" tag="disney" show_extra="tags" orderby="dateD"]
So, assuming your links might have to show the text “Read more …”, the shortcode has to be changed to
[latest-selected-content limit=”1″ type=”post” display=”title,excerpt-small” chrlimit=”120″ image=”thumbnail” url=”yes” linktext=”Read more …” elements=”13″ orderby=”titleA”]
Let me know if this helps.
Absolutely PERFECT!!
Thank you for your help. Its exactly how I wanted it to appear. AWESOME!!
Great! I was glad to help!
