Excerpt/More Trouble

  • whisperedhope

    (@whisperedhope)


    17 years, 6 months ago

    I’ve looked through the FAQs and did some Support searches but I either don’t understand what I’m looking at or can’t find I need out of the information. So I decided to make my own. Sorry! -bows-

    My question is about the excerpt or ‘more’ quicktag. On the main page, I want to show pictures and a little summary before the ‘more’ link. The excerpt only takes like the first whatever words of the post, I belive, so is there any way for the ‘more’ quicktag to be applied to all posts as well as having it show pictures and words? Will this be possible through this Loop thing I read a little about or will I have to do it manually for each post?

    As well, once you click the ‘more’ link, it will bring you to the full post after the ‘more’ quicktag cut. However, I don’t want the pictures/summary, or the stuff above the quicktag, to repeat above the post again when showing the full post. Is there any way to get rid of the stuff above the full post so that only the full post is showing after clicking the link?

    Thanks to all who answer or direct me to support questions made about these particular problems.

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  • Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    17 years, 6 months ago

    My question is about the excerpt or ‘more’ quicktag.

    Pick one. 🙂 They’re a bit different. You control the “more” with the quicktag and where you put it.

    the_excerpt() is quite a bit more hard-wired. It “just happens.” It is a template tag, so you modify your theme to use it. You can either provide excerpt text when writing the post or it’ll grab the first x words of your post (after removing images and most html styling).

    The “more” tag assumes your template is using the_content() instead (and doesn’t work in excerpts).

    This article may be interesting as well: Customizing_the_Read_More

    If you go the_excerpt route, you may be interested in this plugin that lets you control a bit more of how excerpts work: http://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the-excerpt-reloaded/

    Hopefully, after glancing at some of the links here you’ll be ready to decide if you want to use “more” or “excerpts”. Let us know and we can address the other questions.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    17 years, 6 months ago

    As confusing as it may be, the “more” tag and the “excerpts” are 2 (two) different techniques to achieve something similar in WP: namely, to not show the whole content of a post.
    If the_excerpt template tag is used in a template file > it will show automatically the first 200 words or so of a posts – stripping ALL the html tags (links, images etc.)
    The “more” tag is kinda more flexible (= you define where to cut the text, keeps html… but as you noticed, in full/single post view it is still there what is before it).

    Also, related to the_excerpt: if you manually put something in the excerpt field while writing the post – that part will NOT show up on the single post view.

    Now, for what you want to do, I’d recommend Kafkaesqui’s excellent plugin http://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the-excerpt-reloaded/ which will help you to:
    – keep the html formatting in the excerpts
    – avoid showing the “excerpt” text in single post view
    – define the length of the excerpt
    etc.

    Thread Starter whisperedhope

    (@whisperedhope)

    17 years, 6 months ago

    Oh, do I have to choose one? ^^; I thought that with my questions, there could only be one that I would have to go with. -thinks- Whichever one’s easier to understand and execute, I guess. I came across that article before, and it looks good, though I don’t know which parts of it I need and which I don’t xD; That article is for the quicktag, ne? I guess I’ll choose that one ^^;

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    17 years, 6 months ago

    Ok, go with the More tag. It’s easier and it’s a button right above your post editor (I’m assuming you’ve located it already? If not, hover over all the buttons and read the popups until you see it)

    However, I don’t want the pictures/summary, or the stuff above the quicktag, to repeat above the post again when showing the full post. Is there any way to get rid of the stuff above the full post so that only the full post is showing after clicking the link?

    By default, when someone clicks on “More”, they go to the single page view of the post and are positioned so that the part they haven’t seen yet is the top of the screen. I believe that will fit your need?

    Thread Starter whisperedhope

    (@whisperedhope)

    17 years, 6 months ago

    The excerpt doesn’t accept images though, ne? I tried that excerpt field area once but it either didn’t work or I did something wrong @_@;

    It’s that default with the ‘more’ thing that I have a problem with. It jumps to the part of the post after the quicktag, but that part they skip over is what I don’t want showing at all after they see the full post. Can I only correct this if I use the excerpt?

    It’d be nice if that aspect mereged with the quicktag xD

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    17 years, 6 months ago

    Ok, I’m flexible. Go with excerpt, but use the plugin that moshu and I both pimped earlier: http://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the-excerpt-reloaded/ It will allow you to show images in your excerpt.

    Thread Starter whisperedhope

    (@whisperedhope)

    17 years, 6 months ago

    ‘Kay, I went with the excerpt xD; I’m doing something wrong, though, because it excerpts posts I don’t want excerpted, and the ones I do aren’t showing a link @_@;

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