Adding Excerpt to listing

chisomosteve
(@chisomosteve)

7 years, 6 months ago

I’d like to add the excerpt and a featured image to the listing output.

I’ve had a play with the templates/a-z-listing.php file but haven’t found a way to do it.

Can anyone help?

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dougfinn
(@dougfinn)

7 years, 5 months ago
I see you haven’t done it yet, so this might be useful. I’m not sure if it’s the best way to do it, but it works for me.

I copied the a-z-listing.example.php file from the templates folder to my child theme’s folder, changed the name to a-z-listing.php, then added the following lines to the while have_items() loop.
```
while ( $a_z_query->have_items() ) :
   $a_z_query->the_item(); ?>
   <li>
   <a href="<?php $a_z_query->the_permalink(); ?>"><?php $a_z_query->the_title(); ?></a>
   // ============ START of new lines added  =============
   <?php 
      $a_z_query->query->the_post();
      echo "<br>" . wp_trim_words( get_the_content(), 15, ' ...' ); // 15 words, change to what you like
      wp_reset_postdata(); // Not sure if this is necessary here     
   ?>
   // ============ END of new lines added ================
   </li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
```
You can style it by wrapping it in a div and adding a css class.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by dougfinn.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by dougfinn.
Thread Starter chisomosteve
(@chisomosteve)

7 years, 5 months ago

Thanks a lot, that display some text with each entry.

I’ve tried adding the following code to display the featured image but it doesn’t work:
<?php $a_z_query->query->the_post_thumbnail(‘thumbnail’); ?>

Any idea what would make this work?

Thread Starter chisomosteve
(@chisomosteve)

7 years, 5 months ago

UPDATE – I’ve had to revert the plugin to 1.9.2 because of this issue:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-to-a-z-listing-page-not-correctly-output-by-widget/

Now the code to output the text on the listing isn’t working.
Plugin Author Dani Llewellyn
(@diddledani)

7 years, 5 months ago
The correct way to get more post information than the title and permalink is to use something similar to below in your a-z-listing.php template file (this is not a complete template):
```
while ( $a_z_query->have_items() ) :
	$a_z_query->the_item();
	$a_z_query->get_the_item_object( 'I understand the issues!' );
	?>
	<li>
		<h2><a href="<?php $a_z_query->the_permalink(); ?>">
			<?php $a_z_query->the_title(); ?>
		</a></h2>
		<p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
	</li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
```
Please be aware that on a large list of posts this will cause slowness or hit your memory limit. You need to pass the text I understand the issues! to $a_z_listing->get_the_item_object() exactly as written above to confirm that you understand and accept this could be slow or break due to hitting a memory limit.
Thread Starter chisomosteve
(@chisomosteve)

7 years, 5 months ago

Ok thanks Daniel.
Does that only work with version 2?

Plugin Author Dani Llewellyn
(@diddledani)

7 years, 5 months ago

yes, it only works since 2.0

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