Customise content (featured posts)

[LanceHillier]

Hi all,

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to customise what content is shown using the featured posts plug in.

Problem: I have added custom styles to the editor, and as part of the posts I have 'by authorname' under the title, I want to remove this from the content preview in featured posts.

I have tried using 'show excerpt'(and writing my own) which works fine but it removes the 'read more' text and I would like to keep this the way it is..

I have tried adding a class to the 'by authername', but the featured post plug in just seems to grab the selected number of characters and wraps it in a <p>..</p> tag so I have had no luck with that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Lance.

[Brad Dalton]

Genesis Featured posts widget is native to Genesis not a plugin. Is this what you're referring to?

What do you mean by content preview? Do you mean content limit or excerpts?

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[LanceHillier]

Yep sorry should have said the featured content widget, yes the content limit, and the excerpts. I'm trying to remove the first couple of words, it's the Authors name which I put in the editor. I can do it by using the excerpt option but then the read more button is removed( I would like to keep this the way it is) and the content/content limit just grabs everything from the start.

[Brad Dalton]

This code might help

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[LanceHillier]

Thanks Brad,

As soon as I change the featured post widget to show excerpt it removes the 'read more..', by the looks of this code its supposed to add this link back in but it doesn't seem to want to do that for me.

I have just tried your code, and the one I found on wordpress.org.

I also the genesis theme settings to display 'entry excerpts' as per your post with no luck.

not sure, will keep playing!!

[LanceHillier]

Just to add to this, I am adding my own excerpt from the editor screen

[LanceHillier]

I have this code that works...

// Changes the behaviour of manual excerpts to include read more link
function all_excerpts_get_more_link($post_excerpt) {
return $post_excerpt . ' ... ID) . '">Read more';
}
add_filter('wp_trim_excerpt', 'all_excerpts_get_more_link');

But throws this error...

Notice: Undefined variable: post in /Volumes/Design/Website_Design_Jobs/CURRENT JOBS/LOCAL SERVER/writeabetterlife2/wp-content/themes/magazine-pro/functions.php on line 207

Notice: Trying to get property 'ID' of non-object in /Volumes/Design/Website_Design_Jobs/CURRENT JOBS/LOCAL SERVER/writeabetterlife2/wp-content/themes/magazine-pro/functions.php on line 207
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about what holds us back and the things that prevent us from reaching our goals or taking the risks to move our lives forward. I have been guilty of holding myself back many times, so here are my thoughts and what I’ve lea … Read more

[LanceHillier]

Ok, this code works...

function all_excerpts_get_more_link($post_excerpt) {
global $post;

return $post_excerpt . ' <p>' . __('read more') . '</p>';
}

add_filter('wp_trim_excerpt', 'all_excerpts_get_more_link');

but places the 'read more' on a new line like so:

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about what holds us back and the things that prevent us from reaching our goals or taking the risks to move our lives forward. I have been guilty of holding myself back many times, so here are my thoughts and what I’ve lea

read more

I would like this on the end of excerpt like normal, I'm getting closer!

[LanceHillier]

Hi Brad,

I found your code here Force a Read More Link on all Post Excerpts in WordPress

Which is the best yet but it does put the 'read more' like so:

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about what holds us back and the things that prevent us from reaching our goals or taking the risks to move our lives forward. I have been guilty of holding myself back many times, so here are my thoughts and what I’ve lea

read more

Is there a way to place the 'read more' link onto the end of the excerpt??

[LanceHillier]

Ha,

ok I have it working with code I used from this page..

Thanks Brad, your post has helped me find the right solution, or a solution that works, really helps knowing what to look for.

I wonder now if there is an easy way to omit words from being displayed in the featured post widget, from within the editor?? as that may be an easier solution for me to remove the Author name from the top of the post?

Thanks again,
Lance.

[LanceHillier]

All good,

thanks Brad! and for anyone else reading my 'thinking out loud' posts!!

Will mark this as solved.

Lance.

[Brad Dalton]

You could hook the author name in using PHP code rather than adding it to the editor.

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