Unable to display Manual Post Summaries on Category Archive Pages (Magazine Pro)

[carter.scott]

Hey all,

I want to control the Summary that is shown for each post on the post feeds seen on my Category Archive pages. I've tried changing my metadescription/snippet using Yoast SEO, and have also tried inserting a "Manual Excerpt" in the post editor, but for some reason it ALWAYS pulls my first X characters to use as the display summary and doesn't take cues from my metadescription or manual excerpt. How do I individually customize the summaries that it shows for each post in the feed?

I think it has to be something with the Magazine Pro Theme, because just about everything I find online says that one of ^those^ solutions should definitely work. But I think the theme must be pulling from something other than "Excerpt" to fill these summaries.

As you can see on the category archive I linked to in the URL, this becomes a problem when we have a series of content where each post always begins with the same couple sentences. 🙁

https://centralsauce.com/category/discover

[Genesis Developer]

There have excerpt box below the WP Editor. You can add your manual content here for all posts.

Next you can add this PHP code into Magazine Pro theme's functions.php file

add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'paulc_do_post_excerpt', 1 );

function paulc_do_post_excerpt() {
	
	if( ! is_category() )
		return;

	//* Removes the default post content action
	remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' );

	//* Disply the manual excerpt on category archive pages
	add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'paulc_do_cat_post_content' );
}

function paulc_do_cat_post_content() {
	
	the_excerpt();

}

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[Brad Dalton]

Go to > Genesis > Theme Settings > Content Archives and change the setting to Entry excerpts.

This will display the manual excerpt added to each post.

Otherwise, you can use a custom archive page template for Genesis to customize any archive page type.

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[carter.scott]

Thank you both so much! I used the solution found in the Theme Settings for Genesis. Straightforward and simple enough.

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