I think maybe you were seeing a cached version from when I had Elliot’s snippet in the includes file. Again, with that snippet in there I got the excerpt and read more links on the category pages, but I would ONLY get the excerpt and read more links on the single posts, too, so I had to remove that snippet. But now I’m back to no excerpts/read more links on the category pages.

http://skidrow.org/category/affordable-housing/

Here’s what I’m seeing: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s320/sh/673274c3-4014-424c-b912-6a33cf87b4b1/9532930bbf9dde6a04a63b419bb1446c

OK, that works — thanks! I added a little fine-tuning to pull it away from the menu icon and line it up vertically with the menu icon lines:

`@media only screen and (max-width: 990px) {
.responsive.html_mobile_menu_tablet #header_main .social_bookmarks {
display: block !important;
position: absolute;
right: 22%;
top: 53%;
}
}`

Oh, I’m sorry — I know I tried that (Peter’s post) before, but I thought it didn’t work for me, for some reason… OH! I see what it is! Peter’s snippet doesn’t add the excerpt and read more links. BUT, that snippet combined with Elliot’s tweak to the includes file above (April 22) gives me what I’m looking for — the thumbnails and excerpt and read more links on archives pages.

Thanks guys!!

Uh oh! It looks like Elliot’s snippet in the includes file was actually conflicting with my single posts pages — instead of showing the whole post, they were just showing the excerpt and read more link. So, back to the drawing board. Can we re-open this ticket? Now I’m back to needing excerpts and read more links on my category/archive pages (e.g., http://skidrow.org/category/affordable-housing/ ).

• This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by sky19er.

Yes, I’m using the “Advanced Layout Editor” option in Dashboard > Enfold > Blog Layout > Style. I need to use that method so I can maintain the sidebar submenu on the main blog page and put other things in the body area of the main blog page. The code snippet you gave me added excerpts and read more links to my archives pages, I’m just hoping we could also add thumbnails on those archives pages (e.g., http://skidrow.org/category/affordable-housing/).

I’ll send you a login in the following, private reply.

Right, but when you use the blog post element, it only shows the thumbnails on the blog index — I’ve switched it back to that setting so you can see (e.g., http://skidrow.org/category/affordable-housing/). And if I use the other method, I lose the sidebar submenu and, since I handle my page titles manually, I lose the page title on the blog index.

Yeah, I’m handling that through the Page Links To plugin. But that doesn’t have anything to do with this, as far as I can tell — I deactivated that plugin and tested and nothing seems any different. The fact remains that if you go to Dashboard > Enfold > Blog Layout and set the “Blog Style” to the single author, small preview pic style, you don’t get any excerpts or read more links anywhere (on either the blog index or the category archives). And if you use the advanced editor method to get excerpts and read more links on the blog index, you get the full posts on the category archive pages.

Ahh, I had the `if(!function_exists(‘avia_sidebar_menu’))
{` in there, which seemed to break it — thank you!!!

FYI, I added an h3.widgettitle to it, which I think is a nice touch:

$default_sidebar = false;
				$parent = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
				$parentlink = get_the_permalink($post->post_parent);
                $sidebar_menu .= "<nav class='widget widget_nav_menu $display_child_pages'><ul class='nested_nav'>";
				$sidebar_menu .= "<h3 class='widgettitle'><a href='{$parentlink}'>$parent</a></h3>";
                $sidebar_menu .= $children;
                $sidebar_menu .= "</ul></nav>";

Thanks, Ismael — that looks like what I’m talkin’ ’bout! ;) And could you remind me how to handle that via a child theme? I have the child theme all set up and activated, but do i use functions-enfold.php in the child theme, or just functions.php? And what exactly would I include in the child theme file? I got it working by editing the functions-enfold file directly, but can’t seem to get it to work via the child theme. Thanks again!

Hmm, I can’t seem to replicate it, now. I may have deleted a plugin since I last checked, but I can’t remember. Maybe it was something transient with my machine. Anyway, thanks for the reply.