Excerpt View Not Working

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Problem: I want to display the excerpt of the current post in a View on the current post.

Solution: The View may not be necessary if it's only purpose is to show the excerpt of the current post. In that case, you can simply use the wpv-post-excerpt shortcode. However, if the View is also showing other posts, then you can use item="$current_page" in the post excerpt shortcode to target the current post.

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/item-attribute/

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Last updated by davidM-44 4 years, 9 months ago.

Assisted by: Christian Cox.

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July 20, 2019 at 9:22 pm #1296899

davidM-44

I want to create a view within a post page that displays only the excerpt for the current post. The problem is, when I insert the short code into post-2, after having created post-1, then when I go back to post-1, I see the excerpt for post-2!!

Clearly, I need some kind of filter in my view that says to display only the excerpt for the current post, but I cannot figure out how to do that. I've tried a variety of filter options, but I cannot seem to find one that works.

Obviously, my view has to be based on posts rather than taxonomy or users, so that is the option I'm using. I DO want to include the current page in the search results, but it appears that your code creates a secondary search for the excerpt, so it's ALWAYS going to find the excerpt for the LATEST post, even if I want to display the excerpt for some other post that was published before this latest post!

How do I solve this problem?

David McLeod

July 21, 2019 at 2:30 pm #1297019

Christian Cox

Hi, if the purpose of the View is to only show the excerpt of the post being currently displayed, then a View is not necessary. You can use the excerpt shortcode to display the current post's excerpt:

[wpv-post-excerpt]

More information about this shortcode is available here https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-post-excerpt

However, if the View is used to display information about another post, as well as the current post's excerpt, then you can use the "$current_page" operator to display information about the current post, from inside that View:

Excerpt of the post shown in this View: [wpv-post-excerpt]<br />
Excerpt of the post where this View is shown: [wpv-post-excerpt item="$current_page"]

If you're trying to learn more about filtering a View based on the current post or page, then you can read more about passing arguments to Views here: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/passing-arguments-to-views/
You could set up a post ID filter and pass in the current posts's ID in a shortcode attribute.

July 22, 2019 at 3:02 am #1297173

davidM-44

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!

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