Can I Make The Blog Page 1st Post An Excerpt?

[KenTheriot]

I would like the first blog post on my blog page to show up as an excerpt. I found a post in this forum with some code that allowed the search results to show up as excerpts. But for some reason, I can't figure out how to make the first post show as an excerpt too.

BTW, I am not using a static front page for this site - http://www.ravenboymusic.com/

Is there a quick way to do this? Thanks.

Ken

http://www.ravenboymusic.com/

[AnitaC]

You can set the content limit in the home.php file. Look for this:

	if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
		genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features'				=> 1,
			'feature_image_size'	=> 0,
			'feature_image_class' 	=> 'alignleft post-image',
			'feature_content_limit' => 0,
			'grid_image_size'		=> 'grid-featured',
			'grid_image_class'		=> 'grid-featured',
			'grid_content_limit' 	=> 250,
			'more'					=> __( '[Continue reading]', 'eleven40' ),

Change the 0 in the featured_content_limit to what you want.

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[KenTheriot]

Thanks Anitac. I changed it to a 1 and then all I get is the headline of the first post. And it seems like that is the case no matter what non-zero number I put in there. Is there no way to make it be the picture and the first hundred words of the post or something like that?

Your answer did help a lot though! As a "next-best-thing" I've set the number of features to 0, which is closer to what I want than what I had.

The main problem was that if the entire post was visible on the blog page, there was no reason for folks to click through to the article.

Thanks.

Ken

[AnitaC]

Oh, no... you need to change it to the number of characters - like 250, or 300.

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[AnitaC]

See your grid_content_limit is set to 250 characters. So you can change the feature to 100, 200, 250.. or whatever you want.

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[KenTheriot]

Perfect. Thanks!

Ken

[AnitaC]

You're welcome.

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