Utilize Custom Excerpts and Default Excerpts

  • Resolved rezon8dev

    (@rezon8dev)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hi Anthony,
    I’m aware that category archives will display an excerpt if I use the more tag but what I need to do is:
    1) display a custom excerpt if there is one
    2) utilize the default excerpt from WordPress
    3) have the more tag available when I want it to be shorter than the default

    I found some code you provided here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/page-with-posts-2?replies=7

    which uses an if statement in content.php calling the_excerpt but it did not work for me. Can you take a look and let me know if this should be working for what I’m trying to do?

    Just to be clear inside content.php in my child theme I replaced:

    <?php the_content( wp_kses( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>', 'f4d' ), array( 'span' => array(
					'class' => array() ) ) )
					); ?>

    With:

    <?php if ( has_excerpt() ) {
   the_excerpt();
} else {
   the_content( wp_kses( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>', 'f4d' ), array( 'span' => array( 'class' => array() ) ) ) );
?>
}

    My parent theme is called f4d…

    Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter rezon8dev

    (@rezon8dev)

    BTW, the f4d them is Quark it was just renamed to f4d…

    Theme Author Anthony Hortin

    (@ahortin)

    It looks like I made a slight mistake with that code I wrote in the other post. The closing php tag (?>) should be after the last curly brace. So try this…

    <?php if ( has_excerpt() ) {
   the_excerpt();
} else {
   the_content( wp_kses( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>', 'f4d' ), array( 'span' => array( 'class' => array() ) ) ) );
}
?>
    Thread Starter rezon8dev

    (@rezon8dev)

    Hi Anthony,
    I actually solved this by adding is_archive to the code above which displays the excerpt for search results pages. like this:

    <?php if ( is_archive() || is_search() ) { // Only display Excerpts for archives and Search ?>
			<div class="entry-summary">
				<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
			</div> <!-- /.entry-summary -->

    This seemed to do exactly what I was after.

    Thanks for helping, and by all mean if you see issue with this please let me know.

    Theme Author Anthony Hortin

    (@ahortin)

    Looks good. Glad you got it sorted ??

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