Can I increase the “Book Description/Synopsis” length?

Hello,
You can add the code below to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter( 'rcno_book_description_word_count', function( $length ) {
    $length = 2000;
    return $length;
} );

Some suggestions – for the sake of your site’s SEO performance, I’d suggest you disable the “Review” schema markup if you are not doing reviews on your site. Also, try adding more info on books such as publisher, genre and published date. If not, I’d suggest you disable the “Book” schema markup also.

Hi Kemory,

Sorry, but I have no idea where to find the theme’s functions.php file:

I’m still finding my way around your incredible Recencio Book Reviews plugin, and I’m probably not using it in the way you intended, but it is the best book review plugin I’ve found to date, and with a bit of tweaking, it does what I need!

The website contains a list of over 400 self-published and independently-published books that have been approved by Awesome Indies. Some of the books already have reviews. I’m creating a “review” page for each book using the Recencio Book Reviews. I appreciate the plugin was designed for just one review per book, but I can’t find another plugin which is as versatile or as good as Recencio Book Reviews. I’ve only added 20 books so far so I’ll go back over them and add the missing data such as publication date etc.

I would also like to add the other Recencio function for “books by the same author” if they are already on the bookshelf. As I said in another post, I am a complete beginner in WordPress but your plugin is a real help. Thanks.

Hello again,
At the root of your WP site in the wp-content/themes/portfolio-press folder is a functions.php file. You’d use that file to modify the behaviour of WordPress, a theme or a plugin. So you would add the code I provided to the bottom of that file.

Also, that “many reviews to 1 book” feature, I’ve been trying to implement it and so far it is has not been easy as WordPress doesn’t support relationships like that, but I am working on it.

All I am getting with https://awesomeindies.net/wp-content/themes/portfolio-press is a Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /home/content/73/7185973/html/awesomeindies.net/wp-content/themes/portfolio-press/index.php on line 14

Perhaps there is something in portfolio-press to stop you customising the theme. I’m trying another theme to see what happens.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by barleymow.

How did that go? Though I doubt that the issue is with the theme, most likely its an issue with where you pasted the code.

Try pasting the code after line 207

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Kemory Grubb.

Sorry – the error showed up before I got as far as the code

I tried https://awesomeindies.net/wp-content/ … result: Blank screen
https://awesomeindies.net/wp-content/themes/ … result Blank screen
https://awesomeindies.net/wp-content/themes/portfolio-press is a Fatal error as above.

I’ve switched the theme to diva by Elegant themes.

Now I get a Page not found error.

I’m still trying, but not winning!

Create an account for me, change it to an admin account, send the login details to [email protected]

An email is on its way … I have a thought about this. I am only an administrator, not the account holder.

Incidentally, I dropped portfolio-press and am now using Diva

I managed to add the code as above from the side menu “Appearance/Editor” Then on opposite side of screen, under “Theme Files/functions.php”

I scrolled to the bottom and added the suggested code :

add_filter( ‘rcno_book_description_word_count’, function( $length ) {
$length = 2000;
return $length;
} ); `

it works, thank you Kemory … this plugin gets better every time I use it!