I am trying to: Create an Archive Layout. I want to only show an excerpt of the archive item, but the excerpt feature of the layout strips formatting and doesn't look as good, so I pulled in a plugin to give me a prettier excerpt (https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-excerpt/). With that, I use the wpv-post-body shortcode.
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I expected to see: Each item with an excerpt formatted from the plugin.
Instead, I got: the same content repeated. Note, on that page, the content of the actual Announcement-type posts is very different. This feature does work correctly without the plugin, so it is an incompatibility, but I need to be able to get the end result, and this is the only way I could find.
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I was able to make progress using the [wpv-post-excerpt] tag except Advanced Excerpt settings are not taking over. To confirm this is an incompatibility and continue debugging, I would like to replicate your site locally.
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HOWEVER, you changed the shortcode being used in your testing. The shortcode I need to be able to use these together is [wpv-post-body], NOT [wpv-post-excerpt]. The latter returns an entirely unformatted excerpt which is not acceptable for what I'm doing. The problem is that the [wpv-post-body] (which returns the nicely formatted excerpt using that plugin) returns the most recent post's content for every item on the archive page.
Thanks!
I figured it might not be the correct shortcode. I was merely suggesting [wpv-post-excerpt] did in fact allow the correct content to show. I will continue debugging with [wpv-post-body].
I am duplicating the site and will continue debugging locally. I will update you with feedback as soon as possible.
Just a quick update to let you know I am still debugging on my end. Thank you for your patience.
Thank you for your patience. This issue should now be resolved. It was resolved by suppressing the filters that bring up the excerpt.
[wpv-post-body view_template='None' suppress_filters='true']
Please let me know if this resolves the issue or if it needs more investigation.
Hi Tia -
Thanks for working on this. That just makes it possible to see the entire body. The whole reason I added that plugin is so I could clip the body and have a formatted excerpt on this page. If y'all add a feature to clip the body at n words or characters, it would make this a non-issue, but, until then, I need to use these together.
Thanks!
If y'all add a feature to clip the body at n words or characters, it would make this a non-issue, but, until then, I need to use these together.
Understandable and thank you for bringing that up. Let me look into this further and try to provide you with a solution from our end.
Please see Toolset > WordPress Archives > Archive for Announcements
[wpv-post-excerpt length='100' count='word'] was added. Is this what you are looking for?
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-post-excerpt
That still doesn't work because the excerpt is unformatted. I need to excerpt to show all the formatting, etc., in the original post. That's why I was using post body.
Understood. I am consulting with my team on this. Please standby.
The solution to this is going to be on the WordPress end. The reason for not allowing formatting in the excerpt is because it actually breaks HTML. For instance, if the HTML opening tag is cut off in the excerpt it actually creates the rest of the page to be formatted like that HTML open tag.
Furthermore it can also interfere with Toolset, other plugins and the rest of the page display.
Please see:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/the_excerpt/
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An auto-generated excerpt will also have all shortcodes and tags removed. It is trimmed down to a word-boundary and the default length is 55 words.
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Therefore it is highly recommended that you do not display the excerpt or a trimmed down version of the body with post formatting.
However, if you still need this there are solutions outside of Toolset.
Here is one example that goes into detail:
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/141125/allow-html-in-excerpt
