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Hi Kriesi!
I’m experiecing the same issue others had…
But I cannot make Enfold work. Blog posts would be shown entirely, even if “read more” is set. No excerpt’s working right.
My config:
– Single post with big preview image (featured image)
– loop-index edited like this: $blog_content = !empty($avia_config[‘blog_content’]) ? $avia_config[‘blog_content’] : “excerpt_read_more”;
if(is_single()) $blog_content = “content”;
– For each article in a feed: Summary
– Disable Comments plugin – but doesn’t matter, issue occured beforeFront page posts are shown entirely, when they shoudn’t.
Please, see http://www.dalcnet.com/test to give me just a hint.
Thanks and best regards.Hi dalcnetsrl!
Please don’t create any changes on the theme files. Go to Enfold > Theme Options > Where do you want to display blog? option then deselect the page that you set as blog. Leave it blank. Create a page then insert the Blog Posts element. Configure the Blog Content Length to show an excerpt or summary.
Best regards,
IsmaelI manage to get excerpts working by keeping the config I mentioned above. Should I go back and restore the original one?
Hi!
It would be best to not have to re-edit your theme files after each theme update (since they will get written over by updates) but the choice is yours if you have it working how you would like.
Best regards,
DevinI’m still having trouble even though I am doing what Ismael said:
– in Settings > Reading, selected ‘Homepage’ for the home page and ‘Blog’ for the posts page
– in Enfold > Settings, deselected the homepage and blog posts page
– inserted a Blog Posts item in custom layout of the ‘Blog’ page, choosing excerpt and the Multi Author layout as desiredI’m still getting the entire content. The site did originate on an older version of WordPress (pre-3.0, around 4 years ago).
Is there something I need to do to bulk designate excerpts on the posts? I really don’t want to go through an have to manually designate excerpts.
Screenshot: here
PS. I am developing locally using AMPPS, hence the custom domain (trilogyarch.dev) and I am using a Kriesi-provided Child Theme template.
Hi!
What Ismael was trying to explain is that you don’t need to set the “blog” page with the theme options. So change the WordPress settings back to not selecting a specific page and then don’t select a page as your blog page in the theme settings as well.
See: http://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/setting-your-home-and-blog-pages/
Regards,
DevinOk, that worked! Thanks a ton Devin, especially for the quick response!
Just my two cents… that’s kinda counter-intuitive I think. Both WP and Enfold have options to designate a blog posts page – and excerpts or full content – but they don’t work together unless you don’t use the blog posts page choice?
Typically themes hijack the WordPress Settings>Reading choice anyway because it lets WordPress run like normal (reading from the index). After that point what you are doing is setting the home page specifically (to a page template) but not setting the blog page to use the default template.
The issue is that there are two official WordPress ways to delineate your excerpt with WordPress. Excerpts and the Read more tag. The Read more tag is the preferred way for some people but not others.
So what happens is that in a theme you can use two ways to show content for blog feeds: the_content or the_excerpt. The first will use the More tag to show an excerpt if its there but otherwise show the whole post. If you designate an excerpt it will to. Using the_excerpt will automatically cut your posts after a specific word count or use the self created excerpt.
The end result is the theme uses the_content and if you aren’t using the more tag to break up your content then it seems like excerpts dont work by default. You can however use the above workaround and choose that option from the blog Advanced Layout Builder element :)
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