Blog Not Showing Correctly

[kilerb]

For some reason, I'm having multiple problems with the blog on this site.
Here are the issues...
• The title isn't showing at all.
• I'd like to have a 150x150 featured image to the right of the story. (Just like I have on freecomedyshows.com which is the old version of streamline I believe.)
• I'd like to show excerpts. When I click that option, it works, but there's no link to see the rest of the story. Just 3 dots in parenthesis... (...) that don't link. I'd like it to say "Read More" And the title should link to it too, but that's not showing.

Thanks!

http://daledymkoski.com/

[Krista]

Here is help with the Read More link.

Customize Read More Tag, Link & Excerpt

As for the blog excerpts, try looking at Bob's tutorial on your theme under Content Archives:

http://bobwp.com/streamline-pro-child-theme-tutorial/

If this isn't what you want then a little bit of custom coding will be needed, or possibly tweaking the CSS

Not sure about the title not showing up.

[AnitaC]

For the titles, I can't seem to find what's wrong. I've looked through the code. By any chance do you have the Genesis Title Toggle plugin installed because that turns the titles on and off.

I see the 150x150 to the left and also to the left on the other website. I don't see them to the right

Excerpts do not show the [Read More] but if you want that - go to Genesis > Theme Settings. Scroll down to Content Archives and you can set it to "Content Limit" - add number there of maybe 300 and save it. Then you will get the result you want.

I hope I interpreted what you were asking for.

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[kilerb]

I meant to the left for the 150x150 image. On his site that's not a featured image. I just embedded it there and it kind of looks like one for now. I'd like an excerpt with a featured 150x150 image like on the freecomedyshows.com site. 🙂

[AnitaC]

What do you have selected under Genesis > Theme Settings > Content Archives? Have you selected and image and content limit?

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[AnitaC]

Poop, I forgot. Streamline uses that huge Featured Image and not the thumbnails. You don't have any Featured Images set, right? You have to hack the functions.php file. I just did this for a client! How could I forget.

Back up your functions.php file. Then look for this in the functions.php and REMOVE IT.

//* Remove default post image
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_image', 8 );

//* Add post image above post title
add_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'streamline_post_image', 1 );
function streamline_post_image() {

	if ( is_page() || ! genesis_get_option( 'content_archive_thumbnail' ) )
		return;
	
	if ( $image = genesis_get_image( array( 'format' => 'url', 'size' => genesis_get_option( 'image_size' ) ) ) ) {
		printf( '<a href="%s" rel="bookmark"><img class="post-photo" src="%s" alt="%s" /></a>', get_permalink(), $image, the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) );
	}
	
}

Then add this:

//* Add default post image 
add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_image', 8 ); 

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[AnitaC]

Here's the demo I did for the other client. So it works.

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[kilerb]

Hi Anita... Thanks! I haven't had a chance to look at this until now. The demo you linked was in maintenance mode the day you sent that and still is. Just so you know 🙂

Where do you set how many characters an excerpt will show? It's not filling up all the space and I think it will look better with more.

[kilerb]

Actually, I found the excerpt character length in the link above. I actually added 3 pieces of code to the functions.php... Only 1 of them seemed to work (The one that states how many characters the excerpt should be...) The other 2 didn't seem to work. The [...] still remains rather than the <read more> with a link. Here's the code I used...

add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'customize_wp_read_more_link' );
function customize_wp_read_more_link() {
    return '<a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '">[Read More]</a>';
}

add_filter( 'get_the_content_more_link', 'modify_read_more_link_text' );
function modify_read_more_link_text() {
    return '... <a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '">[Read The Entire Article]</a>';
}

add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'change_excerpt_length' );
function change_excerpt_length($length) {
    return 65; 
}

[AnitaC]

You didn't need to do that - it's controlled under Genesis > Theme Settings. I took it off maintenance - http://staging6.cre8tivediva.com/?page_id=79. I didn't add any extra code other than the thumbnail code.

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[kilerb]

Hi Anita... I went to Genesis>Theme Settings. I don't see anything regarding the <read more> option. I see excerpt or full post... Which I changed to excerpt. Everything looks great now, But the posts all still end with [...] rather than a link to <read more> Isn't that what that tutorial posted above is about? I added those codes to the functions.php like it said... And you said I didn't have to? I'm confused! Hahahah 🙂

[AnitaC]

Your code may be confusing Genesis. If you use Excerpt you will get the [...]. If you use Content Limit and add, say 300 to that, the [Read More] will show up.

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