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Hi
If I write a post in the advanced editor and include an excerpt in the excerpt box, the blog page shows the excerpt text and a “read more” link.
If I write a post in the default editor and include an excerpt, the blog page shows the full blog article.
Wordpress seem to think this is a theme thing – https://wordpress.org/support/article/excerpt/ – so I’m asking here.
What do I need to do to get my posts written in the default editor to display the excerpt and “read more” button, like the posts written in the advanced layout editor do?
Thanks.
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=0That’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.
Hi lmackinnon,
You should be running at least php7 for the code to work properly. Please consider upgrading your php version.
Best regards,
VictoriaFor 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,
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.
Hi,
it’s been over a week and no-one has yet addressed the actual issue of whether excerpts not displaying in the blog feed for posts created with the default editor is a theme issue or not.
I extended the access for another few days so your team can access the site and have a look.
Should I repost this as a new top level thread as well?
Thanks.
Hi,
Sorry for the delay.
The post content in the blog should be displayed based on the option set in the “Blog Content length” settings, but this is not working properly in your installation. You may need to upgrade the theme from version 4.5.5. to the latest version, 4.6.2.
You should also set the Enfold > Blog Layout > Blog Layout to “Use the advance layout builder..” if you want to display custom content from the advance layout builder in your blog page. And reset the Settings > Reading panel options to default. You don’t need to set the front and blog page there. We already set these options. Please update us once the theme is upgraded.
Thank you for the update.
Best regards,
IsmaelHi Ismael. Thanks for this.
1. “You may need to upgrade the theme from version 4.5.5. to the latest version, 4.6.2.”
Done.
This didn’t in itself resolve the problem.
2. “The post content in the blog should be displayed based on the option set in the “Blog Content length” settings,”
I don’t see this option – where would I find this?
3. “You should also set the Enfold > Blog Layout > Blog Layout to “Use the advance layout builder..” if you want to display custom content from the advance layout builder in your blog page. And reset the Settings > Reading panel options to default. You don’t need to set the front and blog page there. We already set these options.”
This seems to be the way it’s already set up – I assume you changed them to this or I did already.
I think I would have had the enfold settings like this anyway in order to get the posts created with the advanced editor to display properly (they do).
Any further ideas / thoughts will be appreciated! :)
Hey!
Thank you for the update.
The “thoughts” or blog page is now displaying the excerpt of the posts. We toggled the appropriate options as suggested above. If you want to configure the blog posts manually, edit the “Thoughts” page and look for the Blog Posts element. That’s where we set the “Blog Content length” settings.
Regards,
IsmaelThanks 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?Hi lmackinnon,
NO, the archive pages cannot be edited like that.
Archive pages can be customized like this
Best regards,
Victoria
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