how to get custom excerpts on blogroll page

  • Resolved mattneub

    (@mattneub)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    In accordance with the instructions under Homepage Settings, I designated a static page as my initial home page and another as my posts page. I got that to work, but my problem is that the posts page is showing the entire contents of posts rather than the custom excerpts I have given to each page. Under Content Options under Blog Display I picked “Post excerpt” but the posts page still shows complete posts. I was able to work around this by manually inserting a “more” comment after the first paragraph of each post, but that is not what I want; I don’t want the reader to see the first paragraph but rather the excerpt, which is a better summary. Is this a bug in Twenty Nineteen? Is there a known workaround?

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  • Each theme can choose to show full content or excerpts. Most themes provide a choice for the author. Twenty Nineteen does not provide a choice.
    If you want to use this theme, you can make a child theme and change the template files to call the_content instead of the_excerpt. There might be other related things to change, such as the parameters to the function and the styling of the link to the single page.

    Thread Starter mattneub

    (@mattneub)

    Actually this problem seems to have been solved by an overnight automatic update to WordPress version 5.1.1 / Twenty Nineteen version 1.3. So it evidently was indeed a bug, now fixed.

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