Excerpts don’t show on post
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When writing a post, I have excerpts enabled in screen settings and I can see and populate the excerpt box. However, there is no excerpt under the entry title when viewing the post.
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Shoreditch doesn’t display excerpts by default on the front end.
There are a couple of ways to achieve that.
1. Create a child theme and modify one of the theme files to display excerpts on the blog instead of the full post. If you go that route and need help, just let me know.
2. Shoreditch supports a new Jetpack feature called Content Options, which gives you a new panel in the Customizer that lets you choose between displaying the full post or excerpt on the blog page, among a few other options:
If you activate the Jetpack plugin you’ll find the new panel in your Customizer, no particular module is needed.
Let me know how it goes.
However, wherever in the post I add the more link (or indeed do not), there is no “Continue reading” link so a visitor cannot click to read the full post unless they know they can click the h1 entry title text to read the full post.
That’s right – you won’t get a “Continue reading” link with a custom excerpt – that’s core WordPress behaviour.
If you prefer, you can use the “More” tag, which should display a “Continue reading” link where you broke the post. That would be instead of a custom excerpt.
I was, ideally, wanting to emulate the excerpt functionality I used to have when using the Twenty Sixteen theme, which let me display an excerpt, followed by the post content, until I had entered a more tag.
Ah, that is quite different from how this theme works with core WordPress functions. To emulate that functionality you’d need to make some file changes in a child theme. If you’re comfortable editing some code and need help with that route, let me know and we can explore what it would take.
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