[Plugin: Display Posts Shortcode] excerpt vs full text of post

Yes, you can, but this will require writing an output filter in your theme’s functions.php file. Here’s the code you paste in that file: https://gist.github.com/1298344

Note that this turns the excerpt into the full content, so you’ll need to have the shortcode set to display the excerpt.

Thanks for the response. I am new at all of this, so I’m unclear on the response comment added (by GaryJones) to the github code you reference in this case.

Also, when I tried pasting the code as is, into my functions.php, I get the following error. Are you able to direct me on what this means? Are his comment and my error related?

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /data/22/2/59/66/2548718/user/2793317/htdocs/WordPress/wp-content/themes/platformbase/functions.php on line 22

Gary was just being nitpicky about the comment block at the top. It doesn’t affect the code at all.

I’d have to see your code to confirm, but my guess is that you do not need the <?php at the top of the code snippet.

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1-position itself https://www.hipstrumentals.com/2011/11/kid-ink-like-ag-instrumental-hook/
2-parent’s post https://www.hipstrumentals.com/2011/11/kid-ink-like-a-g-instrumental-hook/kid-ink-ft-travis-porter-like-a-g-instrumental/
friends please help, it seemed logical as you think?
parent post does not even have headings, and do not see how this is? 2 See second post to see.

so… to be clear, if i add this to my functions file, it changes all excerpts to full text?

i have a page that i want to display the full text of one post to show and the excerpts of 3 from a certain category.

if that’s possible, how would i edit these shortcodes??

right now what i have below only shows one excerpt from the blog and the excerpt from the specific post…

[display-posts image_size="thumbnail" include_excerpt="true" posts_per_page="3" wrapper="div" title_class="display-posts-title" date="yes"]

[display-posts id="964" image_size="thumbnail" include_excerpt="false" posts_per_page="1" wrapper="div" title_class="display-posts-title" date="no"]

I am trying to get the page to display a category 10 posts at a time but would like the output to be the same as my default posts page. The default posts page shows the excerpt up to the <!–more–> tag in the html code then has the read more link. It also includes the first image. And it has an older posts link at the bottom for the posts beyond the count of 10. So far all I am getting is the title and the short excerpt. I figured out that the thumbnail is only generated by having an image set as featured. I may be able to use this if I set the post count to all and make sure I have an image for each. Currently using the category page itself in a custom menu to show as a page. Any help appreciated.

My question has been resolved. I found a work around with the Advanced Excerpts plugin.