Strip Table of Content from excerpt

Hello @igenius,

We are glad that you liked our product. ??

Could you please open a ticket with us from here, so that we can have a closer look?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards,
Sweta

Hi, I got this ticket from my colleague.
The problem is happening on automatic excerpt that strips also html but they cannot understand what blocks don’t need to be part of that of course.
In this screenshot https://imgur.com/a/Gmfaq5z you can see what happens.

The ToC is cut and HTML stripped away, so we have instead of the paragraph block (as example) content the content of the toc.
This doesn’t make sense with excerpt.

Looking at your block it includes the same content inside the HTML comment with the various parameters but also the HTML that creates our issues.

I did a function that strip gutenberg blocks from the content and with filters altered the flow of Genesis framework to use the cleaned content https://gist.github.com/Mte90/077dcc444d4f8fbd996513c209563cad

I guess that this problem happens with all the themes and plugins that generate an excerpt, probably also ours https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/glossary-by-codeat/ that does when the excerpt is not provided.

The way to fix on your side is don’t put HTML stuff inside the content but just the parameters.

Hello @mte90,

As we know – a WordPress excerpt is basically a summary of a longer article, often used as a replacement on the blog index and archives pages to avoid needing to display the full content of each post.

For example, displaying the full content for ten posts that are 1,000 words each means that your blog listing pages will contain ~10,000 words, which is an unmanageable wall of text for most users.

Excerpts allow you to slim this down by showing short summaries instead of the full text of each post.

Now, when you add the TOC at the top of the individual post, then, by default, WordPress generates excerpts by merely selecting the first 55 words of a post, which also includes the TOC. And hence you are getting the “Table of Contents” title at the beginning of the content.

In your case, to fix that issue, you need to add your desired content into the Excerpt section from here.

I hope that the above information helps.

Regards,
Sweta

The problem is that frameworks like Genesis and other plugin don’t use the excerpt generated by WordPress for N-reasons.
Also to the other point we as developers cannot asks to our users to write always the excerpt. This happens with a lot of plugin again.

So the issue is that your block is put at the top of an article, includes JSON in the comment with the parameter but also the HTML. This HTML is a content duplicate (because can be generated on the fly, otherwise doesn’t have any sense punt the JSON too) and the block development standard don’t suggest to put HTML but just use JSON to avoid those cases.

So basically this block breaks a lot of retrocompatibility but also user flow just because the block on post_content include HTML, instead as just the JSON.

Hey @mte90 ,

The default get_the_content() generally trips the HTML, so most of the themes and plugins won’t show the Table Of Content title in them when accessing the content in Post Grid or so.

For the themes and plugins doing that, adding an excerpt is the possible solution here.

You can raise a request here in case you want me to further debug and find a solid solution to this.

Regards,
Vrunda Kansara

We already resolved with that snippet I shared by if you try with Genesis framework and one of their themes with the truncate option you will see the problem.

Hello @mte90

Currently, there is nothing we can do here, as fetching the content is handled by the theme. So, right now UAG can not control it.

While generating the JSON is not the solution here as proposed. Yet we will consider the same and see how it can be implemented if feasible.

I hope that clarifies. Let us know if there’s anything else we can help you with.

Regards,
Suman