Anyone had any ideas?

Hi Mike
I found another way – I created an archive.php in my child theme and added – <h1 class="h1-as-h3"><?php post_type_archive_title(); ?></h1> around line 35.

Thanks for your help. I may come back and use this method if mine becomes problematic.

Dominic

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by domchocolate.

I did this so that I could add a class and control the look of it.

			$output = '';

			if( empty( $this->entries ) || ! $this->entries instanceof WP_Query || empty( $this->entries->posts ) )
			{
                               $output = "<div class='no-articles'>There are currently no related articles</div>";
				return $output;
			}

Hi Mike

Not quite – I’d like to keep the breadcrumb as is but add an H1 heading between that and the post grid with the relevant heading title dynamically generated.

I guess it would require tweaking the archive.php?

Dominic

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Thanks, Mike – I’ll try that. It’s so I can have a more advertising-led headline alongside the factual, signpost-type title. It’s about language and hierarchy rather than science. I’ll let you know how I get on.
Dominic

Hi Mike

That works great. One final question – if you now visit the page you’ll see I’ve got the custom headline (thanks) and I’ve added the original post name as a pseudo-class (:before) in the CSS (added as a code block on the page).

Is there a way of automatically calling the original page title into said pseudo-class content variable (content: ‘vision’) or, alternatively, is there another way of doing this by tweaking the postslider.php further?

I’m just trying to make edits as simple as possible for the client.

Thanks so much, again, for all your help.

Dominic

Thanks, Mike – I’ll try that. Any pointers on how can I add this code to a child theme.

Thanks, @guenni007 – that didn’t work I’m afraid.

But I did find the solution in the end. For those interested it’s:

function string_limit_words( $string, $word_limit )
{
    $words = explode( ' ', $string, ( $word_limit + 1 ) );

    if ( count( $words ) > $word_limit )
    {
        array_pop( $words );
    }

    return implode( ' ', $words );
}

function modify_excerpt( $excerpt, $entry )
{
    $label   = "Read more";
    $limit   = 50;
    $excerpt = string_limit_words( $excerpt, $limit ) . '… ';
    $excerpt .= '<a href="' . get_permalink( $entry->ID ) . '"><span class="avia_iconbox_title">' . $label . '<span class="more-link-arrow"></span></span></a>';

    return $excerpt;
}

// Use custom excerpt for Blogposts for grid layout
add_filter( "avf_post_slider_entry_excerpt", function ( $excerpt, $prepare_excerpt, $permalink, $entry, $class ) {
    $custom_excerpt = get_field( 'the_project', $entry->ID );

    if ( $custom_excerpt )
    {
        $excerpt = $custom_excerpt;
    }

    return modify_excerpt( $excerpt, $entry );
}, 10, 5 );

// Use custom excerpt for Blogposts in all layout except grid
add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', function ( $excerpt, $entry ) {
    $custom_excerpt = get_field( 'the_project', $entry->ID );

    if ( $custom_excerpt )
    {
        $excerpt = $custom_excerpt;
    }

    return modify_excerpt( $excerpt, $entry );
}, 10, 2 );

Thanks again everyone for all your help.

Dominic

Thanks, Guenni

Like this?

function modify_excerpt($excerpt) {
   $label = "Read more";
   $limit = 50;
   $excerpt = string_limit_words( $excerpt, $limit) . '… ';
   $excerpt .= '<a href="'get_permalink($entry->ID)'"><span class="avia_iconbox_title">' . $label . '<span class="more-link-arrow"></span></span></a>';

   return $excerpt;
}

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• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by domchocolate.

Thanks, Nikko – Brilliant! That works! One tiny issue…

On the custom posts that use the custom field (the_project) as an excerpt there is one set of ellipses (…) before read more link. eg. https://owe.brother.design/projects/

On the standard posts that use the content as the excerpt there are two sets of ellipses (.……) before read more link. eg. https://owe.brother.design/updates-and-events/

Any ideas on how we fix that so we only get one set on each?

Thanks in advance

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by domchocolate.

Hi Ismael

I have another query around accessibility. I have a form in the footer of my site. It includes a hidden text field.

<p class=”hidden” style=””><input type=”text” name=”avia_6_1″ class=”hidden ” id=”avia_6_1″ value=”” style=””></p>

Apparently this is missing a label which is required for accessibility even though it’s hidden. I appreciate this isn’t going to affect overall accessibility but the client’s software still picks this up. Is it possible to remove this hidden field or give it a label.

Here’s the error

Error
Input field has no description
1.3.1 Info and Relationships
Input fields should always have a description that is explicitly associated with the field to make sure that users of assistive technologies will also know what the field is for.

If the input field has a visible description indicating the purpose of the field, this description should be explicitly associated to the input field either as a HTML label or using the WAI-ARIA attribute ‘aria-labelledby’.

If it is not possible to add a visible description, either add a mouseover text (‘title’ attribute) to the input field or create an invisible label using the WAI-ARIA attribute ‘aria-label’.

Occurrences on this page1

<input>
Empty

Invisible

View code snippet in DevTools

OK – I got this working (almost). So I removed the copy from the excerpt field on the standard post and then the excerpt got pulled from the content field of the post. Perfect. Except it cuts the excerpt off at 9 words (10 including the ellipses (…) ). Can we get this to do 50 words the same as when we use the_project custom field as excerpt?

Example using standard posts: https://owe.brother.design/updates-and-events/

Example using custom post and the_project custom field: https://owe.brother.design/projects/

Thanks in advance

Dominic

Hi Nikko or anyone else – any luck with this???