Post previews are coming up with full post.

  • olivercharleschristian

    (@olivercharleschristian)


    7 years, 7 months ago

    So I’m using the Zomer theme on my website and it’s already proven very tricky to set up and not at all user friendly.

    Now I come to actually launching my website, publishing my posts to my home page, hyping up on my social media etc etc and instead of showing a summary of the post on the homepage like A) the theme suggests B) is common sense as nobody is going to read the article from the homepage it’s showing the ENTIRE article.

    This is not ok. The theme demo implies that it’s a preview and quite frankly I am furious. It appears as if you have purposefully mislead people into thinking its only a preview when in fact it shows the full article. Now my readers are going to see this.

    There isn’t a way for ME to change it myself because I’m not a developer but I suggest you fix it and put an update out. I was just about to donate because using a free theme saved my business hundreds.

    You need to correct the error.

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  • Thread Starter olivercharleschristian

    (@olivercharleschristian)

    And pleas, don’t tell me to edit the theme files, unless you’re willing to walk me through it stwep by step in real time. This needs to be fixed asap. I know I’m not the first to call you out on this issue.

    Theme Author Taras Dashkevych

    (@taskotr)

    Hello,
    Thank you for using Zomer theme!

    “It appears as if you have purposefully mislead people into thinking its only a preview when in fact it shows the full article. Now my readers are going to see this.”
    – I’m sorry that you feel this is misleading, that is not our intention. Let me please explain the situation with the post content in archive views.

    By default, theme uses the_content() function that displays post content. It displays the whole content unless More tag is used.If the More tag is used then the_content() function will only show the excerpt to the point where More tag was added.

    So, the reason why demo site displays a short post content is because each post is using More tag (I think this is something that we need to add to our documentation in the next theme update. So, thank you very much for letting us know about it).

    “And pleas, don’t tell me to edit the theme files, unless you’re willing to walk me through it stwep by step in real time. This needs to be fixed asap. I know I’m not the first to call you out on this issue.”
    – We had a person in this support forum who wanted to have automatic post summaries. Unfortunately, theme does not have such option, and demo site did not use such functionality. So, the demo site has the same functionality as the theme that is hosted here, on www.ads-software.com.

    It’s possible to have short summaries by default but you need to either use a plugin for it, or modify theme’s files.

    If you want to modify theme’s file then you need to edit template-parts/content.php file by replacing the_content() function with the_excerpt() function.

    Best,
    Taras

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