http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/tags/excerpt premium wordpress themes en-US Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:47 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/search.php http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/excerpt-problem#post-5416 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:21:21 +0000 vfxdude 5416@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>not sure I got what the issue is, but for smaller images and excerpt I recommend doing the way I explained <a href="http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/tips-and-tricks#post-5322">here</a> (the first method). I changed this tip, because changing the size with css is not that good solution. It can cause problems like you explain, and that I'm going to change this in the next version of the theme. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/excerpt-problem#post-5388 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:34:57 +0000 Adam 5388@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>not sure how to explain that..<br /> i've got a blog based on Big Feature, which is great.. the problem i have is that i wanted to use excerpts with pictures. i've achieved that by manually typing in the post content in the excerpt field. the thing is that it doesn't look so nice as these messeges have different length and it's quite messy. </p> <p>what's strange is, that when i load the page, just for a second it looks exactly the way i'd like it to be, which means that there are excerpt posts with small image and all posts seem to be the same size. but then, it comes back to the 'normal' look.<br /> so i guess there must be some coding messing this up, which i cannot figure out. anyone could help with that?<br /> my site: <a href="http://promocjamuzyczna.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">http://promocjamuzyczna.com/blog/</a></p> <p>cheers,<br /> Adam </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/links-from-manual-excerpt#post-1554 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:07:14 +0000 LoveFillies 1554@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>I'll give this a try. Thanks for your help! </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/links-from-manual-excerpt#post-1536 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:50:40 +0000 vfxdude 1536@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>choose "Disable meta tags" in the theme settings. It adds the excerpt to the meta tag, and this causes some html tag problem when links are added. You can use a SEO plugin for the meta tags instead. <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/">All in One SEO Pack</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/headspace2/">Headspace2</a> are some that works with the theme. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/links-from-manual-excerpt#post-1521 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:28:37 +0000 LoveFillies 1521@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Hi. I am trying to add multiple links from within a manual excerpt. One link will take them to the full post and one link will take them somewhere else off-site. My problems is that when I add in an {a href=...} tag to the excerpt, when it links to the full post, the post displays with all the text from the excerpt after the {a} tag in the top of the next page. You can see this from this page: <a href="http://esfirst.com/DT2/?page_id=308" rel="nofollow">http://esfirst.com/DT2/?page_id=308</a>. If you click on the "Andy's More" link from here, you will see the garbage on the next page.</p> <p>Any ideas to resolve this?</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Andy </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-818 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:01:53 +0000 vfxdude 818@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>the file is here: library/functions/theme-functions.php </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-814 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:58:11 +0000 jean-paul 814@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Hi... thanks for you answer.. but i am a lost... where is the bf_excerpts function in theme-functions.php (in library functions). where do i go to find this.. what do you mean by library?.. i cant seem to find that file. thanks </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-709 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:37:35 +0000 timlawrence25 709@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>I&#39;ll give this a try and let you know. Thanks again.</p> <p>I&#39;m a little confused however, cause this code looks like it&#39;s not suppose to cut off the excerpt but do a numwords +1. But, I could not get that to work. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-708 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:48:27 +0000 vfxdude 708@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>well, I changed the thumbnail excerpt in 1.3.3...it&#39;s cutting off the excerpt. The reason I did this was because the photoblog template is using the excerpt, and that could cause long excerpts to be written. maybe not the best solution...</p> <p>you can change this (in the bf_excerpts function in theme-functions.php):</p> <pre> if($content) { if ($postType == &quot;normal&quot; || $postType == &quot;feature&quot; || $postType == &quot;portfolio&quot;) $readmore = true; if ($postType == &quot;thumb&quot;) { $words = explode(&#39; &#39;, strip_tags($content), $numwords + 1); array_pop($words); $content = implode(&#39; &#39;, $words); echo &#39;&lt;p&gt;&#39;. $thumbDateText . $content . &quot;...&quot;; if ($readmoreEnabled == &quot;true&quot;) { ?&gt;<a href="&quot;&quot;&lt;?php&quot;">&quot;&gt;&lt;?php echo $bf_readmore ?&gt;</a> &lt;?php } ?&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;?php } else echo &#39;&lt;p&gt;&#39; . $thumbDateText . $content . &#39;&lt;/p&gt;&#39;; // If Read more is set </pre> <p>to this:</p> <pre> if($content) { $readmore = true; echo &#39;&lt;p&gt;&#39; . $thumbDateText . $content . &#39;&lt;/p&gt;&#39;; // If Read more is set </pre> <p>to remove it. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-707 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:18:09 +0000 timlawrence25 707@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Vfxdude,</p> <p>Please assist. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-696 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:34:08 +0000 timlawrence25 696@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Forgot to mention I&#39;m also using the custom single template - cs:single-portfolio.php </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-695 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:18:02 +0000 timlawrence25 695@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>There must be a bug in bfthumbs or theme_functions, cause I enter something along the lines of &quot;testing: 1st, 2nd, SS, OF&quot; and it will not post all of my excerpt.</p> <p>Yeah, make sure you are using bfthumbs, not the portfolio template, and put &quot;Position: Catcher, 1st, OF&quot; for your excerpt and see what you get.</p> <p>Using Wordpress 2.9.1 and Big Feature 1.3.3</p> <p>Also, let say I don&#39;t add an excerpt and I want to use the &lt;!--more--&gt; in the post. It doesn&#39;t seem to work, It just posts every thing. Hmmm... I still think there is a bug here or I don&#39;t have something set up right.</p> <p>Last, If I set Limit Thumbnail text to zero, it will display nothing except ...read more</p> <p>Thanks, Tim </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-685 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:25:01 +0000 jean-paul 685@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>The read more link is easy to adjust in css.</p> <p>go here <a href="http://jeanpaulhaire.com/portfolio/" rel="nofollow">http://jeanpaulhaire.com/portfolio/</a> and use firebug to debug the read more link on the first portfolio excerpt to see how i changed the style.css. (look at the one with the arrow, not the ...) </p> <p>please note, that all my content is total dummy content and the site is under development. i hope this helps you with the css.</p> <p>ps, i am using the excerpt feature rather than the more link.. i like the control better. </p> <p>bye. jp </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-684 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:18:23 +0000 vfxdude 684@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>to change the bfthumbs edit the bfthumbs_func in theme-functions. The bf_excerpt function is called from there. </p> <p>or you can set the &quot;Limit thumbnail text&quot; setting to 0 and the thumbnail text will be stripped for html, but it will show the whole post content too then. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-683 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:12:51 +0000 timlawrence25 683@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>I am using bfthumbs in a portfolio page (like your portfolio page) and am using the excerpt to show the reader what I want them to see. However, this theme will throw away all the formatting I have in the excerpt and put read more any where it likes. I would like bullets and be able to adjust my own readmore in &quot;thumbnail posts&quot;. Please assist.</p> <p>Maybe I need get to rid of bf_excerpt and use the wordpress expert function. How do i do this?</p> <p>Thanks, Tim </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-680 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:40:38 +0000 vfxdude 680@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>excerpt stuff can be changed in the bf_excerpts function in theme-functions.php (in library functions). Search for bull to find the dot. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-678 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:35:33 +0000 jean-paul 678@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Can Someone please tell me what I need to do to remove the &#39;dot&#39; from in front of the excerpt.... I desperately want it gone. thanks in advance. jp </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-676 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:08:20 +0000 timlawrence25 676@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>I don&#39;t think you can edit what is displayed for the excerpt in the css file. I believe a function is telling it what to display. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-675 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:06:26 +0000 timlawrence25 675@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <br /> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-674 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:02:25 +0000 jean-paul 674@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>I also need help on the excerpt. Styling via the css is easy... I only need to know how to get rid of the &#39;dot&#39; between the date and the excerpt content.</p> <p>&lt;p&gt;<br /> &lt;span class=&quot;thumbdate&quot;&gt;12/16/2009&lt;/span&gt;<br /> (this dot here ----&gt;• Excerpts goes here, excerpt goes here, blah, blah, blah.<br /> &lt;/p&gt; </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/bfthumbs-excerpt-formatting#post-673 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:13:40 +0000 timlawrence25 673@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Vfxdude,</p> <p>I am using bfthumbs in a portfolio page (like your portfolio page) and am using the excerpt to show the reader what I want them to see. However, this theme will throw away all the formatting I have. I would like bullets and be able to adjust my own readmore in &quot;thumbnail posts&quot;.</p> <p>Thanks, Tim </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/showing-only-excerpt-of-posting-text-in-blog#post-629 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:31:16 +0000 vfxdude 629@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>the automatic limiter strip the tags. you can limit the text with a &lt;!--more--&gt; tag instead or write an excerpt. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/showing-only-excerpt-of-posting-text-in-blog#post-613 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:29:51 +0000 Colorit 613@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>With try&amp;error I found it ;-)</p> <p>&quot;Limit frontpage text&quot; limits also the text of blog postings on the &quot;blog&quot; page.</p> <p><strong>But what I&#39;ve discovered:</strong></p> <p>with this settings, so that the posting text is limited to (in my case) 80, the <strong>formatting of the text excerpt has been gone</strong>: every new line, empty lines between paragraphs, bold ... has disappeared in the excerpt on the blog page.</p> <p>But when opening the postings, the lines and all other formatting is again there and o.k.</p> <p><strong>Why does not the excerpts show formatted text, new and blank lines between paragraphs for example?</strong> </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/showing-only-excerpt-of-posting-text-in-blog#post-612 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:24:21 +0000 Colorit 612@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I have disabled the theme settings &quot;Enable thumbnails posts for the blog&quot;.<br /> But now it shows in &quot;blog&quot; the whole blog postings one below the other, but all with <strong>whole</strong> text.</p> <p>How can I make it, so that it shows there only an <strong>excerpt</strong> in &quot;blog&quot; of the postings?</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/how-can-i-get-the-excerpts-in-archives#post-513 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:57:23 +0000 vfxdude 513@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>so with site you mean page (first page, second page)?</p> <p>you did not have to change the code to display the excerpt, it was built in, just add an excerpt and it would be automatically used. </p> <p><blockquote>But now I see this also on the first site. Here I want the first entry with your original theme settings (the big image and full content) and the other posts as thumbs.</blockquote><br /> Isn&#39;t it like that on the first page of you blog now? First one is big, and the next ones are thumbnail posts. If you want turn off the thumbnail posts on the frontpage so it&#39;s like on the other pages you can uncheck the &quot;Enable thumbnails posts for the blog&quot; in the theme settings. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/how-can-i-get-the-excerpts-in-archives#post-511 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:04:56 +0000 rappel 511@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>hmm... ok, this is what I mean (please have a look on <a href="http://www.rappelsnut.de/">my site</a>)</p> <p>I&#39;ve added <code>&lt;?php the_excerpt(); ?&gt;</code> to archives.php and now it is fine for me - I see in the monthly and the category archives the excerpt of the posts.</p> <p>Also I&#39;ve added this code to the index.php. Now I see the expert of posts on the second, third, fourth side and so on ... This is what I want. </p> <p>But now I see this also on the first site. Here I want the first entry with your original theme settings (the big image and full content) and the other posts as thumbs.</p> <p>Is there any way to get this result? Which code I need in the index.php to get this? I am Not-a-Coder ... ;-) </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/how-can-i-get-the-excerpts-in-archives#post-501 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:28:30 +0000 vfxdude 501@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>I answered this question on theme forest, but I must admit I don&#39;t totally understand your question. you only want to see the excerpt, not the thumbnail on this sites?? </p> <p>First off, you can disable thumbnail posts for the frontpage/archive/search/recent posts/related posts in the theme settings (they are off by default). and as I wrote on TF you can limit the post text with an excerpt, readmore tag or the automatic limiter. </p> http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/topic/how-can-i-get-the-excerpts-in-archives#post-500 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:28:16 +0000 rappel 500@http://www.vfxdude.com/forum/ <p>Hallo,</p> <p>the home page shows the first entry and all the others as thumbnail. but the second site (via page-navi) and all following sites (also the categories) are showing the full content of the entries. I want to see only the excerpt of articles on this sites (no thumbnails) – how can I get this? </p>