Thanks Ismael, that’s great.
Do I need to edit another page to make the “archive” pages for each month display similarly? See the attached link as an example.
If so, which page do I edit for that?

Any ideas, team? :)

Hi Victoria,

I don’t follow your advice. Could you please spell it out more clearly what you think the problem is and how I can resolve my issue with post exceprts not displaying in the blog for posts created with the default editor?

You sent me privately a screenshot showing the screen options for a post. I checked these options, and I have all the options selected by default, including excepts. That’s why I could enter an excerpt in the excerpt box. So your screenshot appears to have no relevance, or if it does you have not typed any text to explain what the relevance is.

My problem is not typing text in the excerpt box, I can do that already. It’s that when I DO type text in the excerpt box it doesn’t display the excerpt in the blog, for posts created with the default editor.

You’ve had three tries at resolving this for me, and so far none of your advice has appeared relevant, or at least it is not clear how it is relevant.

Would there be someone else on the Enfold support team who can have a look into this for me, or explain what you meant to advise me of more clearly so that I can understand and apply what you mean and get the excerpts to display in the blog feed for posts created using the default editor?

Thanks.

For what particular code to work properly?

Are you saying that excerpts only work with the latest version of PHP (seems unlikely) or that the temporary password isn’t working (also seems unlikely)?

Hi Victoria,

Thanks for your reply.

Obviously that’s where we change the settings – it says so in the WordPress link I posted.

So I did change that setting:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o6qg39vpl0it6av/Enfold_excerpts_readsettings.png?dl=0

That’s why excerpts DO show for posts created with the Advanced Layout Builder.

But excerpts DON’T show for posts created with the Default editor – it shows full text of the post instead in the blog feed.

I note that the screenshot that you sent showed a selection of “full text” instead of “summary” (excerpts).

Is your point somehow that to see excerpts I should, somewhat counterintuitively, choose full text? Which would, I expect, stuff up the excerpts for the posts I produced with the Advanced Layout Builder which I see, I believe, because I selected “summary”??

My question is whether this is a bug / defect in the Enfold theme that can be fixed, or there is some other setting that needs to be changed to make this work.

Thanks for any help you can give.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by lmackinnon.

Thanks Rikard

But if I copy it across to a new post I lose all the SEO from the old one. For example the old posts were published in LI after being published on my blog, and now the LI ones would be “first”.

Is it right that I can’t create a new blog post at the same place? Or would I create a new one, delete the old one, and then rename the new link slug to be the same as the old one and that would work?

Well this is weird. If I switch from the ALB to “default” (Guttenberg blocks) and then just hit update, without changing anything, it works (shows the full text).
I think you / the ALB developers / WordPress could help users by thinking through the design around this and how its meant to work so its more intuitive for users.

As I mentioned I was using the Enfold Advanced Layout Builder. If by the WordPress Block Editor you mean the Guttenberg one, then no I don’t believe I was using that.
If I switch from the ALB to the Default editor, and then click preview, it does the same thing (loads the old page as the Preview). Do I need to make a change in the default editor, and save that?
I did notice that in the Default editor it says one of the blocks is not resolving (see link to screenshot in private section)
If you mean something else by “try to switch to the classic editor in the main page of the theme options to see if that helps” then could you let me know more specifically exactly what you’d suggest I do.

Thanks!

Hi Ismael,

I am having trouble following what you wrote, perhaps this is because you did not use line breaks.

“The theme has been available in the market for more than 6 years while Gutenberg or the block editor was just released or merged in the core last year, December 6th, 2018 to be exact.”

I get that point, thanks. And presumably Guttenberg was pre-announced and open source, and developers such as ENfold’s developers presumably had access for at least a year or so before release to look into it and decide what it means for you. I doubt it was just sprung on you overnight on launch day.

“A lot of users have been using the default editor, known as classic editor now, in the past 5 years or so if they want to automatically display the excerpt of full content in the blog overview page, and add the excerpt manually if they chose to use the advance layout builder. It was and still is the intended behavior between the advance layout builder and the classic editor.”

I am not sure what your point is here. Are you saying that prior to Guttenberg, the Advanced Layout Editor didn’t publish the full text anyway, so if people wanted the full text they had to use the default / classic editor anyway?

And are you further saying that that this is the “intended” or as-designed behaviour – people using the Advanced Layout Editor should never see full text where the blog layout is meant to show full text?

“Same behavior is applied when you switch to the block editor.”

Is your point there that you are saying that this is the same problem whether people use the Advanced Layout Editor or the Guttenberg Block Editor?

“To clarify, you have to add an excerpt manually if you want to display a summary in the blog overview page for posts created with the advance layout builder. The ALB content will display in the actual post. The excerpt or the full content will display automatically when you switch to the classic or the block editor.”

Is this repeating the point from above to “add the excerpt manually if they chose to use the advance layout builder” (and saying the post itself displays ok, which I knew) or is it adding a new distinction? I’m not sure what this paragraph is saying.

Also, when we add the excerpt manually, do you mean type in plan text in the “Excerpt” section in the sidebar when editing the post, or do you mean something else?

Also, could you address:

1. What is this “magic wand” thing mentioned above to turn an advanced layout post into a default layout post, and how do I use it?
2. What do your other users tend to do – do they stick with classic mode for Posts, or do they use the Advanced Layout Builder and write excerpts for each Post?

Thanks!

Thanks. Re the following, this is surprising:

“However as for the full content, it could not be fetched because the posts are using Advanced Layout Builder. To show the full content you need to use the Default Editor, if you want to use some layouts or elements from the Advanced Layout Builder you can use the magic wand option to generate it.”

What is the intended and recommended behaviour here?

I assumed that you’d intend blog posts to be written using the advanced layout builder to build better pages. A page is a page (or a post is a post), so it seems strange that the full text cannot be served.

What do you recommend people do in regards to creating an publishing posts in Enfold?

I think I’ve sorted this out by styling the colours etc in Aweber in the tool where we create optin boxes.

That seems easier to me than re-styling it with CSS in enfold.

So I think this is problem sorted, for now.

I did a manual FTP upgrade. That seemed to get me to 4.3.1. :)