Blog – a few things

I’m having trouble with this too (wanting the reader to not have to click to read the entire post – I think this extra step could lose an impatient reader). I’ve been playing around with different things for over two weeks with no luck. =( Did you figure anything out on yours?

#1) Can you check Settings>Reading in WP Dashboard. You need Full Text to be selected For each article in a feed.

#2,#3,#4 Yes! Do you have a link to your site to check you’re hiding the correct elements?

I see this is an old post, so #1 should answer @fabswag. If @jenmatt still has problems then repost.

Yes, I have Full Text selected, but only the first few lines show up.

Right now my Blog page displays each post with a headline, small blurb of text, and small(ish) image to the left (or right) that has the hover/circle/bubble effect.

Ideally, I would like to have a more image-based look, where images display in a grid (or mosaic) format and each one can be clicked/linked to its corresponding post, which would then contain a headline, text, etc. (This means the Blog page would not have text on it at all, much like the Demo Gallery in the Customizr site. There is another support thread that discusses this but I was not able to work my way through the suggestions there).

I’ve been trying for two weeks (5 hours so far today) to figure something out with no luck, so I am open to the idea that I might have to settle for something different. Plan B is to select the “Image” format on each post, but when I use “Image” the headline and author/category/date info still show, and the image is small and out to the side (with the hover/circle effect). It’s not very visually appealing and looks unbalanced. Larger Photo would be great. No Headline/tags even better. You get where I’m going…lol.

Plan C would be to find a way to display an image with adjustable sizing, followed by the full text of the post, and nothing that requires the reader to click away from what they’re reading. With this I’ve tried “Standard” but as I said before, cannot get the full text to show up, and I don’t know how to adjust the image size/remove the hover effect (or at least remove the colored box that surrounds the circle so that I end up with a larger round photo).

I’ve keep thinking the solution is obvious but I’m at a loss. I seem to come up with alternate plans that I can’t successfully execute. The theme has been almost perfect for us in every other aspect, so I’m hoping the problem is user-error. Color me clueless as to what to try next, though. =) Thanks for your help!

Just tried it and you’re right, it does only display the excerpt despite that setting.

OK, let’s have a try (I’m not a php expert, but can work simple stuff out). This fix displays the Full Text, not the Summary.

You need to have a child theme (eg customizer-child) set up. Create a subdir /parts, and move a copy of customizr/parts/class-content-post.php into it.

Now you need to edit, preferably using an editor where you can read line numbers.

Copy lines 71-74:

<div class="entry-content <?php echo $icon_class ?>">
                            <?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>' , 'customizr' ) ); ?>
                            <?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="pagination pagination-centered">' . __( 'Pages:' , 'customizr' ), 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>
                        </div><!-- .entry-content -->

Replace lines 59-61 with that code. You’re replacing:

<div class="entry-summary">
                            <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
                        </div><!-- .entry-summary -->

Make sure you do this is in the child theme, don’t change the original php file else you’ll lose the change on next update.

Let me know if it works, and make sure there aren’t any side effects I haven’t thought of. If not happy, delete that file from the child theme.

Thank you, thank you!

One additional question – if I already have a Child Theme in place, how do I add a subdirectory to it? Right now my Child Theme only lists the Style.CSS.

I did a quick WP search on the topic, and am a little sketchy on the process. Looking at my Child Theme, it says

@import url(“../customizr/style.css”);

So would I mirror this line and change it to
@import url(“…/customizr/parts/class-content-post.php”); ? Or am I oversimplifying things? LOL

No need to do that! I use Windows, not sure how to do it on a Mac.

In Windows Explorer, locate the customizr-child folder and simply click on New Folder and rename it ‘parts’.

Holy Guacamole, we’re getting somewhere!! =)

It’s still sloppy, but I did create the folder and move the file, make the changes AND get positive results on the first try (which is huge for me these days)! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Now it seems I’m getting double images on two of the three test-posts. The top of the post has a basic image, with no hover/circle effect (which is fine with me), then the bottom has the image again with the hover/circle effect. How do I remove the second image at the bottom of the post?

Also, everything seems to be shifted to the left (as if there is a right sidebar), even though I have each post setting to full-width. Would you know how to correct this? I’m not opposed to it all being on the left side, but I’d want a sidebar to balance it. I tried a sidebar a few weeks ago but gave it up because the images appeared smaller with it in place, which I did not want to happen.

Everything else I can play around with on my own. A million thank you’s for your time and help today, and if you can’t answer my new questions at least I’m SO much closer to success than I was this morning! =)

Easier with a link if you can provide it

I never can seem to link on the first try, let’s see how this goes:

Hahahaha – I knew it. I swear I’m not as slow as I seem to be.

and if that didn’t work:

https://www.fabswag.net

The code being generated is here:
https://pastebin.com/dPnv7ivU

After the < article > you seem to be generating tc-thumbnail/thumbnail-wrapper divs which look out of place to me.

ps like the changing Fonts on the 3 featured pages!

Thanks – I’ll play around with that. This entire project has been an “if this, then…” process for me. (That’s how I ended up with the changing fonts, btw – total accident, but I liked it! LOL) I’m lucky that I’ve death-screened myself out of the site only once (and knew where to go to fix it). Most of the time I can trial and error my way through something but there have been definite brick walls. You’ve been a huge help – thanks!!

So I think the double-image happened because I was adding my post images with the “add media” button which inserted them into the same area as my text. I was not using the “add featured image’ option at all. I think publishing the post defaulted that image to the ‘featured image’ as well, resulting in the double-effect. When I deleted the image I inserted with the ‘add media’ button but left it as a featured image then the blog began to show only one image per post.

Which leads to my next question: now my blog page shows three test-posts with full text showing and a photo out to the side which is encased in the hover/circle effect (translation: you cannot see the image in full). When I click on each post to see how it looks by itself the image is gone. Is this normal for the “Standard” setting on the Customizr theme? I expected the image to show up on both the Blog page and the Post page, but I could be wrong.

I think that is normal behaviour.