Thanks, Nikko

That CSS addressed the problem on the read more issue – see second blog post element on page https://owe.brother.design/excerpt-test/. This element displays portfolio or custom posts that use the_project custom field as the excerpt.

The first blog post element on the page https://owe.brother.design/excerpt-test/ – uses the element to pull in standard posts and uses the standard excerpt field on these posts. You can see that the excerpt is neither shortened to 50 words nor has the read more.

Any thoughts how to fix it in that scenario?

One other thing – I created this test page. This uses blog posts element throughout (no portfolio grids). https://owe.brother.design/excerpt-test/

Blog post element 1 – calls standard posts and uses the standard excerpt field. This element is not working as I’d like because it does not shorten the excerpt or add ‘… Read more >’.
Blog post element 2 – calls portfolio posts and uses the_project custom field as excerpt.

You’ll also notice that when the excerpt is longer than 50 words and the excerpt is edited then the ‘… Read more’ works correctly by being inserted after the 50th word.

If excerpt is shorter than 50 words then the ‘… Read more’ is after a line break which is inconsistent and not as desired. Also when the excerpt is shorter than 50 words it’s displaying the full excerpt and therefore the ‘…’ is not actually necessary or grammatically accurate. Can we remove the ‘…’ under those parameters and display the ‘Read more’ directly after the last word of the excerpt?

Does that makes sense? And thanks in advance.

Dominic

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by domchocolate.

Hi Nikko

Basically, it works for the posts element, see – https://owe.brother.design/sites/oxpens-phase-1/ under heading Other development opportunities when the post element is calling a custom post and using the_project as an excerpt. But for some reason not in the second post element on the same page under the heading Related news and updates – this one uses a post element calling standard posts from the blog and using a standard excerpt field (doesn’t shorten the excerpt to 50 words or add [more info].

Also, it doesn’t work at all for portfolio grids, see – https://owe.brother.design/project-item/oxford-station-western-side/ under heading Other projects.

Code added as Code snippet

Any thoughts?

Brilliant. Thanks Mike.

That’s worked, thanks!

Hi thanks for that. Doesn’t seem to be working for me though. Example here: https://owe.brother.design/sites/oxpens-phase-1/

Hi guys – seems buggy on one computer. My other one seems fine. Please can you keep this thread open for a little while just in case.

Dominic

Thanks.

Here’s an example here: https://owe.brother.design/post-test/ – it just gets locked into 4 columns.

Hi Rikard – did you do anything? It all seems to be working now!

I’ve created a new page and still no joy

https://owe.brother.design/project-item/test-page/

The edit is at https://owe.brother.design/wp-admin/post.php?post=481&action=edit

Would you mind taking a look? Can you remind me of that temporary access plug-in??

Not for me. I don’t understand.

Hi Rikard

I’m glad to say that the shortcodes work in most of the elements I’ve used so far. Eg. here in hotspots https://owe.brother.design/projects-2/ password below – all the hotspot copy is generated through ACF fields added to portfolio item posts. I guess it’s where I use the shortcode in an element that has a WYSIWYG or text field to edit them.

With the ACF image field, however, it works in that it will call the image URL if I place the shortcode on its own in a text field (see https://owe.brother.design/project-item/oxford-station-eastern-side/). The problem comes when I want to call that image using HTML <img src="[insert acf shortcode]'....</img> – the shortcode is either not recognised or is truncated automatically by the Builder.

If the image element in ALB had a field to add a shortcode that may work. Or other elements (eg section, columns) had a field to add a shortcode to insert a background image which could be another possibility.

Any thoughts on that?

Dominic

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by domchocolate.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by domchocolate.

Sorry, Mike. Sussed is a colloquial term I guess. It means sorted; figured out; solved. Thanks again!

Not quite – I want to use SVGs in there but I’m having issues with sizing. Any ideas how to get svgs to behave like pngs?

I think we can close this one. Thaks again

Dominic