How to do conditional post excerpt vs. full content based on category?

[tinymachine]

I want the majority of my posts to show as an excerpt on an archive page, but I am using a category called "courses" for a specific purpose and want to always show the full content, even when on an archive page.

Does anyone have a code snippet for this or something similar? I've been through the tutorials and code snippets provided and can't find anything even close. I know how to do this directly in a regular theme, using wordpress functions, but I'm not yet familiar enough with how genesis works to figure this out.

My other alternative is to convert course posts to pages, but I lose a bit of functionality that way that I'd rather not have to lose if possible. Thanks in advance.

http://brooklinetaichi.org/freshwp/category/courses/

[David Chu]

Hi,
This seemed like a pretty little problem, so I gave it a try. I didn't have any luck doing Genesis commands, although one could make a custom loop to replace the Genesis loop without too much difficulty. There are tutorials on that here and there.

I did figure out a way to do it using code I had laying around for altering the normal WP excerpt. It's probably taking the long way home, though. 🙂 It can go in your functions.php. The code sets a default word length, which you can obviously change. And you will see that I just made a much longer excerpt for a particular category - this number could be bigger if yu have really long Posts. You will also see that I changed the "read more" text, and you could alter that to taste.

remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'improved_trim_excerpt');
function improved_trim_excerpt($text) {
        if ( '' == $text ) {
                $text = get_the_content( get_the_ID() );
                $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
                $text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
                $text = preg_replace('@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si', '', $text);
                $text = strip_tags($text, '<p>');

		$excerpt_length = 50;
		if ( in_category('2') ) {
                	$excerpt_length = 1000;
		}

                $words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
                    $daveLink = ' &nbsp;...[<a>Read More</a>]';
                if (count($words)&gt; $excerpt_length) {
                        array_pop($words);
                        array_push($words, $daveLink);
                        $text = implode(' ', $words);
                }
        }
        return $text;
}

Enjoy, Dave

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Dave Chu · Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers

[Sridhar Katakam]

http://sridharkatakam.com/display-full-content-category-pages-selected-categories-genesis/

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[David Chu]

Yeah, check out Sridhar's stuff... he writes some great material!

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Dave Chu · Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers

[tinymachine]

Yes...I just did! Thank you both for the replies....all very helpful

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