Recent posts on homepage showing full post not excerpt

  • chocula

    (@chocula)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    I have managed to get recent posts showing on my homepage which is working well. They only problem i have is that the full post and not the excerpt is showing.

    <div id="home-news-container">

<?php query_posts('cat=#&posts_per_page=3'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

    <div class="home-post-container">

          <div class="home-post-thumb">
              <a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>">
                        <?php the_post_thumbnail('large_wide'); ?>
              </a>
          </div>

          <div class="home-post-copy">
                  <h4>
                      <a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>">
                           <?php the_title(); ?>
                      </a>
                 </h4>
                 <h5>
                      <?php the_date(); ?>
                  </h5>
              <?php the_excerpt(); ?>

              <div class="home-news-readmore">
                    <a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>">read more</a>
              </div>
        </div>

   </div> <!-- end home-post-container -->

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

          <div class="home-news-readmore news-extra">
               <a href="">more news</a>
          </div>  

</div> <!--- end home-post-container -->

    I don’t understand what the problem is to be honest. I created a new full width template for the homepage which i thought might be causing it but its not. Bit stumped to be honest. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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  • Josh

    (@josh401)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    You have an issue with this line:

    <?php query_posts('cat=#&posts_per_page=3'); ?>

    You are not using a valid “cat” value. Either enter a category number, like this (if category id 8 was desired):

    <?php query_posts(array('cat' => '8', 'posts_per_page' => '3'); ?>

    Or, remove the “cat” value altogether:

    <?php query_posts('posts_per_page=3'); ?>

    Thread Starter chocula

    (@chocula)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Good point, I don’t need a category so i removed it. Unfortunately it hasn’t made any difference

    Thread Starter chocula

    (@chocula)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    I managed to fix it using this code instead of the_excerpt

    <?php

$content = get_the_excerpt();

echo wp_trim_words( $content , '30' ); ?>

    incase anyone else has this issue

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