[jdaviescoates]

Thanks for trying to help Genwrock, but that doesn't make any difference.

All your code does is change the default …[Read More...] link into a button and change the words to Continue Reading.

My points 1 & 2 above still hold true; that is either I can have a …[Read More...] link displayed after a given number of characters (by choosing Display Post Content and setting the character limit), or I can choose where I want the break to be post by post (by choose Display Post Excerpt) but then no …[Read More...] link link is displayed at all.

I want to be able to choose where to break posts and have a …[Read More...] link displayed.

[jdaviescoates]

I have the same problem. It seems that in Genesis you can only choose from 2 sub-optimal options:

1. in Genesis Theme Settings -> Content Archives choose Display Post Content and choose some arbitrary content limit. A ...[Read More...] link is displayed. Great! But sub-optimal because you can't use the More Tag within posts to choose exactly where you want that link to appear.

2. in Genesis Theme Settings -> Content Archives choose Display Post Excerpt. This respects the More Tag in posts and cuts off posts there. Great! But no ...[Read More...] link is displayed and so this option is also sub-optimal.

Is there really no way to be able to choose exactly where you want the ...[Read More...] link to be displayed in Genesis?!?

All I want is to be able to insert the More Tag in a post and for the blog page and content archives to display a ...[Read More...] link at that point. This must be possible, no?

[jdaviescoates]

But what do you do if you want to choose exactly where the more tag should be rather than putting it after an arbitrary number of characters? I'm really struggling to work out how to use this simple standard wordpress feature using Genesis 🙁

[jdaviescoates]

I have the same problem as the original poster. I do not want to arbitrarily choose a character limit because sometimes this ends up with sub-optimal results.

Instead, I'd like to be able to use WordPress' built-in More Tag functionality to choose exactly where I want the read more link to be. However, whenever I use the More Tag no Read More link is displayed at all.

It is possible to use the More Tag and have it actually display a link in Genesis? (specifically, with the Sixty Nine child theme). I've searched all over Google and these forums and haven't found anything 🙁

[jdaviescoates]

Thanks Jan,

That did the trick nicely 🙂

[jdaviescoates]

Hi there, this issue still persists. Something very strange happens whenever a widget area have more than 6 widgets in it. I've got around the problem by creating more widget areas, but that doesn't really solve the problem.

[jdaviescoates]

I've manage to do it by replacing this line

<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

with:

<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">Featured Event: <?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

in my genesis-responsive-slider.php file in /plugins/genesisresponsive-slider/

This works, but will break when I update the plugin in the future.

Is there a way to achieve the same thing using a filter or something?

I'd also ideally like to be able to have 'Featured Event:' in a different colour the the slide title text.

[jdaviescoates]

OK, well I'm not sure if I've done it the best/ most efficient way, but after a bit more googling and playing around I managed to get it working by adding this to my functions.php file and then unchecking 'Include the Featured Image?' in Genesis -> Theme Settings > Content Archives

//* Code to Display Featured Image (and therefore featured video embed) on archive posts
add_action( 'genesis_before_entry_content', 'featured_post_image', 8 );
function featured_post_image() {
  if ( is_singular( 'archive' ) )  return;
	the_post_thumbnail('post-image');
}

[jdaviescoates]

Thanks, that was enough of a pointer to get me going in the right direction 🙂

[jdaviescoates]

Thanks Summer,

That does work better for me than the video thumnail plugin. 🙂

However, the video embed code is only displayed on single posts e.g. http://omexchange.staging.wpengine.com/testing-featured-video-plus-plugin/ not on the blog home page http://omexchange.staging.wpengine.com/blog/ nor archive pages http://omexchange.staging.wpengine.com/category/uncategorized/

Any idea how I can the embed code to show on the blog home/ archive pages too?

I've got as far as realising that the problem "almost certainly occurs because the theme does not use WordPress' default functions for displaying featured images (get_the_post_thumbnail and the_post_thumbnail). These functions are required for the plugin to hook into the WordPress core" but I'm struggling to put that knowledge to use.

How do I tell Genesis to use get_the_post_thumbnail and the_post_thumbnail on the blog home page and archive pages?

Thanks!

[jdaviescoates]

Here is a page that shows what I mean:
http://omexchange.staging.wpengine.com/test-video-thumbnail-post/

As you can see there is a video thumbnail where the featured image is, not the actual video embed code, which is displayed below.

[jdaviescoates]

Thanks Brad, looks like a potentially useful plugin, but it doesn't actually put the embedded video where the featured image normally goes (which is what I and I think the others on this thread actually want to do), just a video thumbnail. Not really the same thing.

[jdaviescoates]

Thanks Dave, I guess that does the trick.

But I'm surprised there isn't a more elegant and clean way to not have the word "About" printed at all and so not have to do a string replace to remove it.

Thanks anyway, this does the job for now.

Cheers,

Josef.

[jdaviescoates]

I'd also like to be able to do this. Lots of other themes do it, there must, surely, be a way to do it using genesis powered themes too, no?

[jdaviescoates]

I want to do exactly the same thing, i.e. we just want to remove the preceding 'About' and display just the author's name. This must be doable, surely?

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