Allow italics in the excerpt

  • dinotoyblog

    (@dinotoyblog)


    2 weeks, 2 days ago

    I’d like to allow italics in post excerpts. Is this possible? I’m using a child theme. Thanks!

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  • Shahin

    (@skalanter)

    1 week, 6 days ago

    Hello @dinotoyblog,

    Thank you for reaching out,

    Yes, it is possible. You can use HTML tags to apply italic and bold formatting to the excerpt. Please check the screenshots in this link for an example: https://postimg.cc/gallery/pmryDDG.

    I hope it helps,
    Best Regards

    Thread Starter dinotoyblog

    (@dinotoyblog)

    1 week, 6 days ago

    Thanks for the suggestion. In my case, the excerpts are generated automatically from the first words of the post content, so any html gets stripped. I found a workaround by editing partials/entry/content.php and adding a new excerpt function to functions.php.

    Shahin

    (@skalanter)

    1 week, 5 days ago

    Hello @dinotoyblog,

    Thank you for the update,

    The content styling without a separate excerpt only shows up when you’re displaying the full content on the archive page. Otherwise it’s just a plain paragraph. But with the method I shared above, you can manually write the excerpt along with HTML tags.

    However, your approach of customizing the excerpt function in functions.php is also a correct way to handle this.

    I’m glad that you were able to find a solution that works for your case.

    Best Regards

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