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1. vincepettit
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   This is probably a really simple question, but i'm looking to display a list of posts like the following:

   • Post Title 1 - Post excerpt 1
   • Post Title 2 - Post excerpt 2
   • Post Title 3 - Post excerpt 3
   • Post Title 4 - Post excerpt 4

   The problem I'm having is getting the title and the excerpt to display on the same line.

2. Peter Boosten
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Never done this, but I suspect you need to disable the wpautop.

   Peter

3. miocene22
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Try
   

   <ul>
   <?php if(have_posts()) : ?><?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <li><?php the_title(); ?> - <?php the_excerpt(); ?></li>
   <?php endwhile; ?><?php endif; ?>
   </ul>

   You may want to change the length of your expert to prevent it from just going into a new line by being a long line (55 words).

   Put
   

   <?php
   function new_excerpt_length($length) {
   	return 20;
   }
   add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');
   ?>

   in your functions php where 20 is the length of the excerpt

4. vincepettit
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Not sure about disabling wpautop, but tried the coded that miocene22 posted and still got the same result, the title is on one line with the excerpt on a whole new line/paragraph.

   I'm thinking i might have to delve deeper into the code to find something to do with the excerpt formatting?

5. vincepettit
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   If I was to disable WPautop what effect would that have of the site as a whole?

   Still trying to find a way around this as it seems the excerpt has a paragraph break or something like that at the start of it.

6. vincepettit
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Just found this - http://benpartch.org/downloads/no-excerpt-p-plugin/

   Works a charm!

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