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1. cimson
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi!

   Have found a template that I like, but there is one problem. In each category section the complete articles are posted. When having 10 - 20 long articles on the same page it gets a bit hard do navigate…

   In each category I would like to show only the titel, the 100 first words of that article and date of publishing for every article”. Is there any solution to make this happen?

   http://www.modellrallaren.se

   /Jocke

2. yoshi
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Use the_excerpt instead of the_content.

   However, length of the excerpt is hard coded to 55 words and you need to change that in some way - for example, putting these code in functions.php in your theme directory.

   /*
    * copied from wp_trim_excerpt in wp-includes/formatting.php
    */
   function wp_trim_excerpt_100($text) {
     if ( '' == $text ) {
       $text = get_the_content('');
       $text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
       $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
       $text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
       $text = strip_tags($text);
       $excerpt_length = 100; //// Changed to 100 words ////
       $words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
       if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
         array_pop($words);
         array_push($words, '[...]');
         $text = implode(' ', $words);
       }
     }
     return $text;
   }
   
   remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
   add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt_100');

3. ronchicago
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   the answer may be in the "excerpt" argument. do a search for excerpt on this forum, there are many discussions.

4. cimson
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   In the codex I found a recommendation to change the code "the_content" to "the_excerpt", but cannot find that piece of code in the categorytemplate code. Any suggestions of what part I should change?

   <div id="content">
   
   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   		<div class="post">
   		<h1><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h1>
   		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $loopcounter++; ?>
   			<?php if ($loopcounter == 1) { ?> <div class="content3-left content3-separator hseparator"> <?php } ?>
   			<?php if ($loopcounter == 2) { ?> <div class="content3-left hseparator"> <?php } ?>
   			<?php if ($loopcounter == 3) { ?> <div class="content3-right hseparator"> <?php } ?>
   
   			<?php global $post; ?>
   			<?php $image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Image URL', true); ?>
   			<?php if(!$image) $image= get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory').'/images/thumbnail.jpg'; ?>
   			<?php if($image) $thumbnail= get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory').'/thumb.php?src='.$image.'&amp;w=153&amp;h=110&amp;zc=1&amp;q=80'; ?>
   			<a>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" >
   			<img src="<?php echo $thumbnail; ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
   			</a>
   			<h2 class="magz-gallery-title"><a>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>" class="title"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
   			</div>
   
   			<?php if ($loopcounter == 3) { $loopcounter =0; ?> <div class="clear" ></div> <?php } ?>
   		<?php endwhile; ?>
   		</div>
   
   		<div class="navigation">
   		<?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) : wp_pagenavi(); else : ?>
   		<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
   		<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
   		<hr class="clear"/>
   		<?php endif; ?>
   		</div>
   
   	<?php else : ?>
   
   		<div class="post">
   			<h2 class="headtitle center">Not Found</h2>
   			<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
   			<center><?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?></center>
   		</div>
   
   	<?php endif; ?>
   
     </div><!--/content -->

5. yoshi
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Just add <?php the_excerpt(); ?> anywhere within the while loop, where you want to display the content.

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