excerpt line breaks not showing in magazine element

Hey sky19er,

Thank you for the inquiry.

It might be due do this line (1297) in the enfold/config-templatebuilder/avia-shortcodes/magazine/magazine.php file, which truncates and removes any line breaks in a text or string.

$excerpt = ! empty( $entry->post_excerpt ) ? $entry->post_excerpt : avia_backend_truncate( $entry->post_content, apply_filters( 'avf_magazine_excerpt_length', 60 ), apply_filters( 'avf_magazine_excerpt_delimiter', ' ' ), '…', true, '' );

Unfortunately, it is not possible to modify the excerpt via filter or hook, so editing the magazine.php file might be necessary in this case.

Or you could define the excerpt of the posts manually instead of relying on the default post content, which is where the summary is taken.

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

Thank you for the update.

Looks like WordPress automatically strips html tags including line breaks before saving the excerpt and the content. You may need to add the following snippet in the functions.php file to allow certain tags in the excerpt.

function wpse_allowedtags() {
     return '<script>,<style>,,<em>,<i>,<ul>,<ol>,<li>,<a>,,<img>,<video>,<audio>'; 
}

if ( ! function_exists( 'wpse_custom_wp_trim_excerpt' ) ) : 

    function wpse_custom_wp_trim_excerpt($wpse_excerpt) {
    $raw_excerpt = $wpse_excerpt;
        if ( '' == $wpse_excerpt ) {

            $wpse_excerpt = get_the_content('');
            $wpse_excerpt = strip_shortcodes( $wpse_excerpt );
            $wpse_excerpt = apply_filters('the_content', $wpse_excerpt);
            $wpse_excerpt = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $wpse_excerpt);
            $wpse_excerpt = strip_tags($wpse_excerpt, wpse_allowedtags()); /*IF you need to allow just certain tags. Delete if all tags are allowed */

            //Set the excerpt word count and only break after sentence is complete.
                $excerpt_word_count = 75;
                $excerpt_length = apply_filters('excerpt_length', $excerpt_word_count); 
                $tokens = array();
                $excerptOutput = '';
                $count = 0;

                // Divide the string into tokens; HTML tags, or words, followed by any whitespace
                preg_match_all('/(<[^>]+>|[^<>\s]+)\s*/u', $wpse_excerpt, $tokens);

                foreach ($tokens[0] as $token) { 

                    if ($count >= $excerpt_length && preg_match('/[\,\;\?\.\!]\s*$/uS', $token)) { 
                    // Limit reached, continue until , ; ? . or ! occur at the end
                        $excerptOutput .= trim($token);
                        break;
                    }

                    // Add words to complete sentence
                    $count++;

                    // Append what's left of the token
                    $excerptOutput .= $token;
                }

            $wpse_excerpt = trim(force_balance_tags($excerptOutput));

                $excerpt_end = ' <a href="'. esc_url( get_permalink() ) . '">' . '&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;' . sprintf(__( 'Read more about: %s &nbsp;&raquo;', 'wpse' ), get_the_title()) . '</a>'; 
                $excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ' . $excerpt_end); 

                $wpse_excerpt .= $excerpt_more; /*Add read more in new paragraph */

            return $wpse_excerpt;   

        }
        return apply_filters('wpse_custom_wp_trim_excerpt', $wpse_excerpt, $raw_excerpt);
    }

endif; 

remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wpse_custom_wp_trim_excerpt');

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

Thank you for the update.

It actually works when you manually add the br tag after every line in the excerpt. Please check the screenshot below.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/c6ouGW3

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

Right, but it works without even adding the br tags in the blog element

The blog element actually displays the post content, not the excerpt. And it looks like WordPress do not automatically add paragraph tags or create new lines for the excerpt, so if you want the magazine to work the same as the blog element, you have to remove the post excerpt and modify the magazine.php file, around line 1297 look for this code.

$excerpt = ! empty( $entry->post_excerpt ) ? $entry->post_excerpt : avia_backend_truncate( $entry->post_content, apply_filters( 'avf_magazine_excerpt_length', 60 ), apply_filters( 'avf_magazine_excerpt_delimiter', ' ' ), '…', true, '' );

Replace it with:

$excerpt = avia_backend_truncate( $entry->post_content, apply_filters( 'avf_magazine_excerpt_length', 60 ), apply_filters( 'avf_magazine_excerpt_delimiter', ' ' ), '…', false, '' );

Just make sure that you are not using any shortcodes in any of your posts because what we did with the modification is disable the function that strips the shortcodes and html tags.

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

Did you manually add the br tags in the excerpt? This is the actual rendered html in the page containing the blog posts.

Don’t let go… < br >
Those words. < br >
Let go of what? < br >
I cast her a look. < br >
Her feet < br >

NOTE: I added spaces to the br tags because the forum automatically strips them.

Can we login to the site?

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

Thank you for the screenshot.

We have found the difference between the blog posts element and the magazine. In the blog posts element, the content or the excerpt runs through the “the_content” filter, so the required formatting including line breaks get applied before actually returning the text. This is not true for the magazine element.

To change that we have to modify the same line (1297) of code above.

$excerpt = ! empty( $entry->post_excerpt ) ? $entry->post_excerpt : avia_backend_truncate( $entry->post_content, apply_filters( 'avf_magazine_excerpt_length', 60 ), apply_filters( 'avf_magazine_excerpt_delimiter', ' ' ), '…', true, '' );

And add this code below.

$excerpt = str_replace( ']]>', ']]>', apply_filters( 'the_content', $excerpt ) );

This is the result after doing the modification above. (see private field)

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

I added

$excerpt = str_replace( ']]>', ']]>', apply_filters( 'the_content', $excerpt ) );

for the next release 4.8.7.2.

Think, it makes sense.

Also added filter avf_magazine_skip_excerpt_content_filter to skip.

Best regards,
Günter