Code Parrots

Hey @gcmedia,

Thanks so much for taking the time to leave us a nice review. I’m so glad that we were able to help get your issue resolved. We are going to put together a small documentation article outlining the steps we took to fix things with the Brooklyn theme, so others who are running into similar issues can quickly get things resolved.

Thanks again and have a wonderful rest of your day!

@gcmedia,

If you’d like to shoot us an email at [email protected], we can take a closer look at your specific theme. It’s possible that the brooklyn theme has some documentation on how to remove that, by unregistering a hook or removing a filter.

@gcmedia,

It does look like it’s the theme that is appending that onto the end of the content. I would imagine that the theme is appending content onto the end of the_excerpt() filter.

There are a few workarounds, but the easiest and quickest method is to hide it using CSS. If you are familiar with editing your themes style.css file, or adding additional styles via a third party plugin, this fix should be fairly simple.

You’ll want to use the following bit of CSS to hide the section you don’t want visible:

.cd-timeline-content .brookly-hatom-data {
   display: none;   
}

Once added to the style.css file, you can save the file and refresh the page and the additional data should be hidden.

However, I am still seeing the data appended at the end of the excerpt. It doesn’t look like that is wrapped in any HTML.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Code Parrots.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Code Parrots.

Hi @gcmedia,

Thanks for reaching out to us with your inquiry! In regards to your issue, are you using the standard Timeline Express container? Or did you customize that at all?

Does that text only display on announcements? Or does that display on your standard posts as well? It’s possible it’s being appended by your theme. What theme are you currently using, maybe I can test with?

Is it possible to share a link to the page with the issue? Maybe there is some indicator on the page or in the markup of where that is coming from.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Code Parrots.

Hi @powerup5,

You can alter the permalink to the posts by using the new filter timeline_express_announcement_permalink.

https://github.com/EvanHerman/timeline-express/blob/master/lib/helpers.php#L502

This will also alter the ‘Read More’ link, if visible.

Here is an example changing the post with ID 15 to link to google.com:

function set_announcement_fifteen_to_google( $permalink, $post_id ) {
   
   if ( 15 === $post_id ) {
 
     return 'https://www.google.com';

   }

   return $permalink;

}
add_filter( 'timeline_express_announcement_permalink', 'set_announcement_fifteen_to_google', 10, 2 );

You can change (or add more) post ID’s to specify which link. Feel free to alter it however you need to adjust where the announcement is linking to. We may build out an add-on in the near future so you can specify the external URL on the announcement edit page, to avoid having to write additional code.

Hi Sebastian,

That’s great to hear! Thanks for keeping us in the loop.

If you continue to use the plugin, and find it useful we would love it if you could leave us a nice review here in the www.ads-software.com plugin directory:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/timeline-express/reviews/

Thanks again and have a great rest of your day!

Hi Sebastian,

You certainly can show the year instead of using icons in the Timeline. Take a look at the following documentation we have setup explaining how to achieve that:
https://www.wp-timelineexpress.com/documentation/can-display-year-instead-icon-timeline/

In short, you’ll want to add the following to your themes functions.php file:

/**
 * Remove the Font Awesome icons and
 * display the announcement year instead
 */
define( 'TIMELINE_EXPRESS_YEAR_ICONS', true );

Once added, the year will reflect the year of the announcement that it is next to, instead of displaying the Font Awesome icon.

Let us know if that helps out!

Hi qpvlde,

This can be achieved by adding a bit of code to your themes functions.php file. Take a look at our documentation:
https://www.wp-timelineexpress.com/documentation/enable-announcement-dates-times/

Copy the last block of code into your themes functions.php file or use a third party plugin such as my custom functions, and you should be in business. This was requested by another user and we wrote an article on how to achieve that.

Let us know if you need additional help, and if that solution works for you. If so, we may consider turning that into another free addon to host here in the WordPress repository.

Thanks!

Hi Kinghot,

The error you have pasted above is not related to our plugin. It looks like it’s coming from the plugin “Digital Publication”. You may want to post in their forum and ask what is going on.

HI Powerup5,

You can certainly setup a redirect using wp_redirect and a few conditionals. At the moment, we don’t have a filter to alter the permalink to the post. We are actively working on a new version (v1.3.2), which should be out in the next day or so.

This next release introduces a few new filters, including one to allow for the permalinks to be altered.

I will post back here when we get that release pushed out, and can provide you with a code snippet.

Hi @kinghot,

It sounds like you are running an outdated version of PHP. My recommendation would be to udate PHP to version 5.4 or later.

Let us know if that helped solve the problem for you.

HI @egundersen,

Your theme should have some form of word-break set, so in cases like this the words wrap around.

My recommendation would be to add the following bit of CSS to your active theme:

h2.cd-timeline-item-title {
   word-break: break-word;
}

Which should fix the problem for you. Please let us know if you are still having issues after the code snippet has been added to your active themes style.css file.

Additionally, you can hide it via CSS. Take a look at a recent thread asking the same question, here:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/sidebar-showing/

Hi there,

Please take a look at our documentation on how to remove the menu page:
https://www.wp-timelineexpress.com/documentation/customize-single-announcement-template/

You just need to duplicate your single page template, rename it and replace a single line in the file.

Thanks!

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by Code Parrots.

Hi,

Please take a look at our documentation on how to specify a larger image size:
https://www.wp-timelineexpress.com/documentation/how-do-i-use-a-larger-announcement-thumbnail-size/

Thanks,
Evan