Excerpt functionality strips URLs

  • Revian

    (@revmacian)


    7 years ago

    In Customizing > Theme Options > Blog Options, I would like to remove the Excerpt functionality altogether so I can manually add the “More” link in the tinyMCE editor. I have some blog posts with only one line (5 words) and that line contains a link to another site, but in the exceprt this link is shown as regular text rather than a link. It isn’t a good idea to set the Excerpt spinner to “5 words” because that will affect all other blog posts on the home page. This should be easy to reproduce on your end.

    How do I remove the Excerpt functionality altogether so I can manually add the “More” link in the tinyMCE editor? This built-in functionality in WordPress works much better for me.

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  • wensolutionsupport

    (@wensolutionsupport)

    Hello @revmacian,

    The feature to manage the excerpt layout or display the full post in blog page is available in the pro version only.

    If you want more dedicated and swift support on the theme, please visit the theme’s official support forum where the theme’s official support team are stand by to answer each and every one of your questions.

    https://themepalace.com/forum/education-hub/

    Best regards.

    Have a good week ahead.

    Thread Starter Revian

    (@revmacian)

    I don’t think you fully understand the issue. So, let me ask this another way. Suppose you have two posts shown on the homepage. One post contains 5 words with two of those words being links to another site. The second post contains 30 words with no links. Now, suppose you set the excerpt length to a number between 5 and 30 – the first post will be seen in its entirety and the second post will have a “Read more..” link. The links in the first post are seen as text instead of links because your excerpt functionality strips links from full posts on the homepage – your readers won’t know there are clickable links when viewing the homepage. This bug isn’t present when using the built-in <!--more--> functionality that ships with WordPress.

    So, you’re asking me to pay for the pro version in order to get the same functionality that WordPress provides for free?

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