WordPress › Support » [Plugin: Pages Posts] Not showing full text

Papousek
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi, I'm afraid the plugin is not working for me, I'm looking for a plugin that would show full text of the message rather than just a title or excerpt, but in spite of selecting 'full text', only the titles are shown. It's probably to do with the theme, Station by Page Lines, but just thought i'd let you know.
rgubby
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

try upgrading to version 2.0 - it uses a different template so should be ok!
horiamar
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I have the same problem. Using the newest update of your plugin, I cannot see the whole post, it appears truncated even if I set the plugin for "no excerpt".
What can I do? I use it with the them "cutline", here:
http://piatamatache.info/?page_id=73
(this is a page that uses the plugin)

Well, I could imagine that the plugin uses some kind of page from the theme templates, and modifies it to show the posts. I could change the code of the template file, but I do not know which template the plugin takes.

I am NOT using the feature "show as a home-page" as my home-page file is customised and would not work.

Thanks in advance! By the way, the plugin does a wonderful job!
Horia
afc32
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I just had the same problem and fixed it by hacking around... Turns out the solution is most likely editing a file in your theme, not this plugin. Basically search around in your theme .php files for any mention of "the_excerpt" and change it to "the_content". In my case, the culprit was the category.php file in my theme.

The bad: now whenever someone views any of my categories, it will show full posts. The good: I only want people to view my categories through my menu as pages, so I can now use this plugin to decide whether they should show up as full or excerpt posts.

Therefore for now I'm going to leave my hack as is...it'd be nice if there were a way to override my themes ability to choose excerpt over full-post though... Maybe I'll look into that another time. Let me know if this helped...

-Andrew
horiamar
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Hi Andrew! Thank you for the good ides! I did it as you said.
I found a file, archive.php, from my theme Cutline with 2 columns, and I changed "the_excerpt" with "the_content".
Now it works, and shows both the version with excerpt or full post.

But I still have problems (even if lesser) to show the content in the right manner. The excerpts look not ok (the formatting of the post is gone, when shown as excerpt with "more" tag or with extra written excerpts).

Horia
afc32
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Okay...I think I actually found the root of the problem. What we would like to do, and I'm not sure if this is what was intended by the plugin designer, is for the categories we're setting as pages to neither be archive or category page types. Essentially what I needed to do was add these two lines in a few places in the plugin's functions.php file:

$GLOBALS['wp_query']->is_category = false;
$GLOBALS['wp_query']->is_archive = false;

Here's a copy of my functions.php file:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2953302/functions.php

Just put this in wp-content/plugins/pages-posts. I didn't have much time to make this look clean, so I just simply copied and pasted those two lines above in all three cases of this one if-statement.

With this change, you can change that line in archive.php back to the_excerpt from the_content...

Let me know if you have any questions. Hopefully the plugin designer sees this and gives some input.
horiamar
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Dear Andrew, thank you very much for your prompt answer and solution! This is a great help, and sounds like the right thing! I will come back with results as soon as I have tested it in my installation. (I am now in a hurry with other work...).
DGoe001
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

Dear RGubby,

First of all, congrats on a wonderful plugin! My issue is a little different than that of the others on this thread, but I did not know where else to post it. I am having a problem with the sidebar on page whilst your plugin is activated. I am attempting to create a page with no sidebar, but the page template does not appear to change despite my doing so within the dashboard. I am currently running on the latest version of wordpress, so that could be the issue, but as of now I am quite unsure what to do. If you could get back to me with a solution that would be wonderful!

Thank you and congratulations once again on a beautiful plugin,

Dee