[delanthear]

Setting the text content to “excerpt” seems to ignore what is in the excerpt field on the page, and instead takes from text from the body of the page. This would be fine, if it honoured the <!– more –> tag because you could then cut off text you didn’t want to appear?

What I’m expecting if you’ve selected “Blocked Content” to be excerpt

1) Text to be taken fro the excerpt field on the page.
OR
2) If there is no excerpt text, take it from the page content, but use <!–more–> (or something similar) to know where to cut off
3) If there is no <!–more–> tag, cut off after x characters (which could be a setting)

Am I being daft and missing something?

• This topic was modified 7 years ago by delanthear. Reason: typo
• This topic was modified 7 years ago by delanthear.

[delanthear]

I’ve fixed this with a child theme. It looks like that to have post excepts being used properly, a tweak can be made to fluida_custom_excerpt in fluida/includes/core. It doesn’t look at that field at all. It could be tweaked to look for a post excerpt before creating one from the post.

I’ve done it in a hacky way, but might spend some time adding this to the right function.

[delanthear]

Here is the function to override in a child theme if you need it:

function fluida_lpblocks() {
	$maintitle = cryout_get_option('fluida_lpblockmaintitle');
	$maindesc = cryout_get_option('fluida_lpblockmaindesc');
	$pageids = cryout_get_option( array( 'fluida_lpblockone', 'fluida_lpblocktwo', 'fluida_lpblockthree', 'fluida_lpblockfour') );
	$icon = cryout_get_option( array( 'fluida_lpblockoneicon', 'fluida_lpblocktwoicon', 'fluida_lpblockthreeicon', 'fluida_lpblockfouricon' ) );
	$blockscontent = cryout_get_option( 'fluida_lpblockscontent' );
	$blocksclick = cryout_get_option( 'fluida_lpblocksclick' );
	$count = 1;
	$pagecount = count (array_filter( $pageids ) );
	if ( empty( $pagecount ) ) return;
	?>
	<section class="lp-blocks lp-blocks-rows-<?php echo absint( $pagecount ); ?>">
		<?php if(  ! empty( $maintitle ) || ! empty( $maindesc ) ) { ?>
			<div class="lp-section-header">
				<?php if( ! empty( $maintitle ) ) { ?><h2 class="lp-section-title"> <?php echo do_shortcode( wp_kses_post( $maintitle ) ); ?></h2><?php } ?>
				<?php if( ! empty( $maindesc ) ) { ?><div class="lp-section-desc"> <?php echo do_shortcode( wp_kses_post( $maindesc ) ); ?></div><?php } ?>
			</div>
		<?php } ?>
		<div class="lp-blocks-inside">
			<?php foreach ( $pageids as $key => $pageid ) {
				if ( !empty( $pageid ) ) {
					$page = get_post( $pageid );

					switch ( $blockscontent ) {
						case '2': $text = ''; break;
						case '1': $text = $page->post_content; break; 
						case '0': default: 
							if ( ! empty( $page->post_excerpt ) ) {
								$text = fluida_custom_excerpt( $page->post_excerpt ); 
							} else {
								$text = fluida_custom_excerpt( $page->post_content ); 
							}
							break;
					};

					$data[$count] = array(
						'title' => $page->post_title,
						'text'	=> $text,
						'icon'	=> ( ( $icon[$key . 'icon'] != 'no-icon' ) ? $icon[$key . 'icon'] : '' ),
						'link'	=> get_permalink( $pageid ),
						'click'	=> $blocksclick,
						'id' 	=> $count,
					);
					fluida_lpblock_output( $data[$count] );
					$count++;
				}
			} ?>
		</div>
	</section>
<?php } //fluida_lpblocks()

[Zed]

Thanks for pointing this out. We’ll try to include support for the custom excerpt in the next update.

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[delanthear]

Great 🙂

[AlwaysTired]

I’ve encountered the same problem with the Nirvana theme. Could you please include support for custom excerpt in Nirvana as well?
Thanks!

[delanthear]

Just upgraded to Fluida 1.3.0 The new theme doesn’t pull anything for except at all now even though it’s populated on the pages.

[Zed]

Pages don’t normally have excerpts in WordPress. How are you defining these excerpts?

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[delanthear]

Weird. It’s just there:

Website: www.rockrunrelax.co.uk

[delanthear]

Ah! It’s hidden by default on pages. You turn it on from the screen options:

Enabling Screenoptions

[Zed]

There is no excerpt for pages under the Screen Options by default, so you must be using a plugin (or custom code) to activate it.

However, we figured out what was missing and support for the non-existent 🙂 page excerpts will work in the next update.

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[delanthear]

Something very odd going on. I’ve don’t have a plugin for it, and I’m using your theme and the override for displaying it needs to be placed in the functions.php file.

My other blog, using default twenty fifteen theme, and no plugins (as I don’t use excepts at all on that blog) doesn’t display excepts, but it’s there in the screen options drop down to enable!

[Zed]

The override can be part of any file that gets loaded by WordPress, not necessarily the theme’s functions.php.

Maybe you’re running a customized WordPress version?

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[delanthear]

Very very weird. Just created a new install, added all the same themes and plugins and the option isn’t there. I’ve no idea how I made it appear!

Never mind. Thanks for adding the ability 😀

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