[paultp]

Hi,

For anyone else wanting to do this, I achieved it as follows:

1. Install the http://wordpress.org/plugins/page-excerpt/ to give you an excerpt box on pages (like the one on posts). You can then put what you like in the custom excerpt.

2. Install the http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-featured-widget-amplified/ plugin and use it to feature your page.

3. Add the following code  to your functions.php to get a read more link (change the read more text to whatever you want). Because the read more link in the amplified plugin only shows up if you select "show content limit".

/** add a read more link to an excerpt **/
function custom_excerpt($text) {  // custom 'read more' link
if (strpos($text, '[...]')) {
$excerpt = strip_tags(str_replace('[...]', '... <a href="'.get_permalink().'">[Read More...]</a>', $text), "<a>");
} else {
$excerpt = '<p>' . $text . '<br/><a href="'.get_permalink().'">read more...</a></p>';
}
return $excerpt;
}
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'custom_excerpt');

Hope that helps

[paultp]

That's the third time this week that I've complicated something simple. Senility must be setting in.

Thanks

Paul

[paultp]

I'm trying out shopping carts at the moment and have looked at most. A couple of general points:

They are all extremely basic in their free versions, if you want to do anything more than just sell a few things expect to pay extra (in some cases a lot extra)
None of them has a decent reputation for support - days to respond is typical

I quite liked Woo and have installed the free version with a free weight based shipping plug-in on a customer site and that suits their basic needs.

For another site I needed a few more complicated shipping options and attempted to buy the table rate shipping extension. As I type Woo's own shopping cart does not work and I've now waited ages for some support on this. They send a support ticket linking to support that you cannot access until you have bought something - Catch 22!

I'm happy to pay a premium for a cart and shipping that works but unfortunately I have yet to find one.

 

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