Using custom excerpts

[creative5designs]

I have a site that I'm using the standard Genesis loop on, with the content limit showing, which is fine, but sometimes I'd rather show a manual excerpt instead of the content limit. Is there a way to have Genesis show the manual excerpt if it exists, otherwise show the content limit? (I'm sure this is probably an easy fix, I just can't seem to find it/make it work!)

Thanks in advance.

[ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ]

It's in the theme settings.

So Genesis > Theme Settings > Content Archives, select Display post excerpts.

Sorry if i misunderstood the question, but I think that is what you mean

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[creative5designs]

Thanks for responding David - I think I may not have worded my question very well.

I have the setting set to show the content limit, which is what I want most of the time. However, on a few posts, I would like to craft manual excerpts instead. So by default, it will show the content limit, but if a manual excerpt exists on a post it would show that.

I'm thinking it would be a php if/else statement in the functions to set this, I'm just not good enough with coding yet to know exactly how to craft the function.

[Genesis Developer]

Yes. There need a bit of PHP code and a custom meta variable. You'll assign the "manual_excerpt" meta key for manual excerpt post only. You can achieve it this way:

Step 1. Meta key = manual_excerpt
Step 2. Meta value = yes
Step 3. Rewrite the genesis_do_post_content function. Write the code in your functions.php file ( I did not test the code. So before you'll keep a backup of your functions.php file)

//removing the default genesis_do_post_content function
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' );
//re-creating the new one "genesis_do_post_content_new"
add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content_new' );
function genesis_do_post_content_new(){
     global $post;

	if ( is_singular() ) {
		the_content();

		if ( is_single() && 'open' === get_option( 'default_ping_status' ) && post_type_supports( $post->post_type, 'trackbacks' ) ) {
			echo '<!--';
			trackback_rdf();
			echo '-->' . "\n";
		}

		if ( is_page() && apply_filters( 'genesis_edit_post_link', true ) )
			edit_post_link( __( '(Edit)', 'genesis' ), '', '' );
	}
	elseif ( "yes" == get_post_meta($post->ID, 'manual_excerpt', true) || 'excerpts' === genesis_get_option( 'content_archive' ) ) {
		the_excerpt();
	}
	else {
		if ( genesis_get_option( 'content_archive_limit' ) )
			the_content_limit( (int) genesis_get_option( 'content_archive_limit' ), __( '[Read more...]', 'genesis' ) );
		else
			the_content( __( '[Read more...]', 'genesis' ) );
	}
}

Good Luck!

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