caterhamcomputing

Hi.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

I’ve had a look, and I’m guessing that your list of books is generated by a shortcode … as this was the only way I could recreate the problem in my test environment.

I think the problem was likely to be due to CC Child Pages not evaluating shortcodes before generating the shortened version of the page content. I have corrected this, and hope that it will sort out your problem.

If you upgrade to version 1.12 I would be grateful if you can let me know if this sorts out the issue … if not I would be very happy to work with you to get to the bottom of what might be going on.

The depth parameter is not currently supported in the shortcode, as it is mainly designed to show direct children of the current or specified page.

However, now that you raise the issue I can see that it might be a useful addition when displaying an unordered list of pages and will add the option into the next release.

I’ve applied the CSS from my previous post to a new section on the demo page titled “Custom CSS Styling”

OK, the new version of the plugin is available … let me know if the “Continue Reading” text goes away when you have updated it. (If not, try entering a custom excerpt for the pages while we work out where that text is coming from.)

Hi Simon

I’m not sure where the “Continue Reading” message is coming from … it is being added to the generated excerpts for your pages either by your theme or one of your other plugins. You may be able to get around this by filling in the Excerpt field for the pages (if it is not showing, click on “Screen Options” when editing a page and make sure Excerpt is ticked … although I’ve noticed it is not available for pages when using certain themes!).

I think the problem is that something has added a filter to add the “Continue Reading” link when the excerpt is generated from the page content.

I’ll look at changing the plugin to generate the excerpt itself rather than using the routines built into WordPress, which will hopefully get around this issue.

Time allowing, look out for the new version later today … I’m also adding a button to the WordPress editor to make it even easier to add the shortcode. (Although I may just make the change to generating the excerpt if time gets too tight to fully test it all today …)

The “Read more…” link is contained within a paragraph with a class of ccpages_more … so you could either change the CSS for the entire paragraph:

p.ccpages_more {
    background: red;
    color: white;
}

p.ccpages_more a {
    color: white;
}

or apply CSS just to the link itself:

p.ccpages_more a {
    background: red;
    color: white;
    padding: 10px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
    -moz-border-radius: 5px;
    border-radius: 5px;
}

… depending on the effect you want to achieve.

Finally, thank you very much for the donation … it is truly appreciated.

I’m going to mark this topic as resolved now (as I believe that I have answered the original question, and the other issue is not a “bug” – although I will try to implement a resolution anyway), but if you need further help with getting everything working with your theme/plugin combination please feel free to contact me via my main web site or raise another support ticket here.

Thanks again for your review … just thought I’d drop you another quick reply, as I believe I’ve now addressed the shortcomings that you highlighted:

• You can now choose from a number of (admittedly basic) skins for the boxes, or add your own class so that you can style the boxes however you like (or leave them un-styled – they will still be responsive).
• You can also now opt to show the featured image of a page as a thumbnail (if the page has a featured image).

All feedback is most welcome 🙂