Styling the Excerpt – Twenty Ten

  • Uffe

    (@uffe-kirkegaard)


    13 years, 3 months ago

    Does anyone know why the “Continue Reading”-link moves down in the left corner of the excerpt, and by the way, it only does so when I write my own excerpt and not when wordpress autogenerates the excerpt…?

    You can see what i mean in the first post here (the first post AFTER the sticky posts)…

    https://uffekirkegaard.com

    I can’t find where to style the excerpts/standard posts.. I know where to style the sticky ones, but not the standard ones..

    Any ideas..?

    ??

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  • Here’s a quick tip that I just picked up. Instead of using the_excerpt() function use the_content().

    In your post add the tag <!–more–> where you want the excerpt to end. When the loop runs it will only publish content to the <!–more–> tag. When the user clicks into the post using (single.php) the full content will be displayed.

    You can personalize the “Read more” link in the new and improved excerpt by adding something like this…

    the_title(‘keep on reading!’)

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter Uffe

    (@uffe-kirkegaard)

    Thanks very much for your reply Carmellom..

    But that’s what I did before, but the reason it doesn’t really work for me anymore is, that almost all my blogposts is going to have a video as the first thing in them.

    So it will have to show the whole video on the frontpage, before any text can show up..

    (Hope it makes any sense – otherwise it may help to see what I mean on my Danish site. On this site I already have some of the videoposts I’m talking about https://uffekirkegaard.dk I’m using the .com for the styling testing ??

    Thread Starter Uffe

    (@uffe-kirkegaard)

    Ok..

    I got some of it now. I found an article that pointet me in the right direction… The styling of the excerpt is done in the css file using the “.entry-summary” function..

    So the only thing left is the “Continue reading” placement when writing the excerpt manually…

    I think it has something to do with the coding in functions.php..

    Anyone able to point me in the right direction with that..?

    Kind regards
    Uffe

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