@sridhar , a sandbox is in this case a testing environment.
So the problem is when active theme is a child of 2012, correct?
Having here:
WordPress v3.51 , theme Desk Mess Mirrored v2.2 with child theme Multi v2.1.1. (is child theme of Desk Mess Mirrored)
It all is in a protected work envirement. (In a sandbox, here in vmware with wamp setup, so it is not a live situation but it simulates it)
The issue I have, it seems that Desk Mess Mirrored theme allows not the option to use excerpt in postings on the frontpage. Although it shows the excerpt as soon you click an archive.
I thought that I made some mistake in re-coding but as soon I switch back to the Twenty Twelve theme excerpt works, so it is missing for the frontpage in Desk Mess Mirrored theme.
This file: desk-mess-mirrored.php is “responsible” for it and already changed some code and it seems to work but not in a way as it has to be 🙂 Now it shows(forces) nicely the excerpt on the frontpage but it even seems to overrule the –more– option when we don’t want to use the excerpt.
Org code:
if ( is_home() || is_front_page() || is_single() || is_page() || ( is_author() && ( $count == 1 ) ) ) {
the_content( __( 'Read more... ', 'desk-mess-mirrored' ) ); ?>
<div class="clear"><!-- For inserted media at the end of the post --></div>
<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<p id="wp-link-pages"><strong>' . __( 'Pages:', 'desk-mess-mirrored' ) . '</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number' ) );
} else {
the_excerpt(); ?>
<div class="clear"><!-- For inserted media at the end of the post --></div>
<?php } /** End if - is home */
Changed it to following:
if ( is_home() || is_archive() || is_search() || is_category() )
the_excerpt(); ?>
<div class="clear"><!-- For inserted media at the end of the post --></div>
<?php } else { ?>
<?php the_content( __( 'Read more... ', 'desk-mess-mirrored' ) ); ?>
<div class="clear"><!-- For inserted media at the end of the post --></div>
<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<p id="wp-link-pages"><strong>' . __( 'Pages:', 'desk-mess-mirrored' ) . '</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number' ) ); ?>
<?php } /** End if - is home */
I hope the theme author has a solution which is better then my temporarily solution.
The theme is written to show the full post (using the_content) when displaying a “full” page view. The settings you are describing are used to change which page you are using to show first (read: site landing page) and in that case the theme will show the entire “page”.
Your changes be they via the Parent-Theme or added a Child-Theme are changing the core display ideas behind the theme. I do not see this as an issue and would likely recommend adding a front-page.php template to the Child-Theme as a more correct solution than editing the core files of Desk Mess Mirrored or Multi as those edits will be over-written with new updates to those themes.
