Adding excerpt to billboard

Resolved paranthropus
(@paranthropus)

10 years ago

I recently switch over to justwrite and I (along with my readers) love it.

However, some don’t like the way the billboard can push content “below the fold”. So I was planning on adding the excerpt (or a subtitle from another plugin) into the billboard but can’t seem to figure out how.

In other words, where would I stick the code like,
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php get_secondary_title($post_id, $prefix, $suffix); ?>
Or something along those lines

Any help would be appreciated.

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Theme Author acosmin
(@acosmin)

10 years ago

you are talking about the slider? AC SEC: Slider?

Thread Starter paranthropus
(@paranthropus)

10 years ago

No, just the “billboard” featured image at the top of each post.

Ideally, it would look something like this; adding in the excerpt (or some other custom field) below the main title.

I can already achieve this effect with plugins (hence how I made that screenshot) but these stick the “subtitle” everywhere the title appears. I’d like it just to appear on the posts themselves.
Theme Author acosmin
(@acosmin)

10 years ago
You can open /post-templates/layouts/layout-cover.php and right bellow:

the_title( '<h2 class="title">', '</h2>' );

add:
```
?><header class="details clearfix" style="margin-bottom: 1em;">
<span class="detail left"><em><?php the_excerpt(); ?></em></span></header><br /><?php
```
You can then set the excerpt when you edit the post, as you normally do.
Thread Starter paranthropus
(@paranthropus)

10 years ago

Thanks, that worked perfectly.

It did add a weirdly formatted jetpack “like box” but turning off the feature in jetpack disabled that. Since I don’t really care about the like box I didn’t mind turning the whole thing off. It might just be something to consider if you’re ever dealing with this again.
Theme Author acosmin
(@acosmin)

10 years ago
You can also try something like:
```
if( '' != get_the_excerpt()) { ?><header class="details clearfix" style="margin-bottom: 1em;">
<span class="detail left"><em><?php the_excerpt(); ?></em></span></header><br /><?php };
```
In case you don’t have an excerpt set, it will not show an empty space…

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