Display Posts Shortcode does not provide a “Continue Reading” feature by default. That is handled by your theme.
Also, you should be using the category slug (iphone-and-ipad), not the category name, in the shortcode.
If you would like to override your theme’s defaults and let Display Posts Shortcode handle it, do the following:
[display-posts include_excerpt=”true” image_size=”thumbnail” wrapper=”div” posts_per_page=”-1″ category=”iphone-and-ipad” excerpt_length=”95″ excerpt_more=”Continue Reading” excerpt_more_link=”true”]
It won’t look exactly the same as your theme though since it won’t include the post title in the more link.
OK, now I’m really baffled. But first, thank you for helping me with this. I made a new page to use for testing. The page is http://christianboyce.com/page-for-bill. The page is nearly blank except for a little bit of explanation, and this code (copied from your message above):
[display-posts include_excerpt="true" image_size="thumbnail" wrapper="div" posts_per_page="-1" category="iphone-and-ipad" excerpt_length="95" excerpt_more="Continue Reading" excerpt_more_link="true"]
I changed the posts_per_page to 10 and category to “”. Other than that, it’s a copy and paste from what you posted. But, as you will see, the page shows “Continue Reading (post name)” for each blog excerpt, and from what you wrote I should not see it. I changed the excerpt_length to “20” to see what would happen and the answer is… nothing! So, I think something else is controlling my blog post excerpts, even though I trigger the excerpt using your shortcode. My theme is “Aaron” in case that helps.
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Are you running the most recent version of the plugin, 2.6.2? The three parameters (excerpt_length, excerpt_more and excerpt_more_link) were just added to the plugin this week, so if you’re using an older version of the plugin they won’t work.
I’ve installed the Aaron theme in my local testing environment and here’s what it looks like: http://cl.ly/1l0X3F3A0832
And here’s what it looks like without the three new parameters (so as it would look on an older version of the plugin): http://cl.ly/1d2v2i2E3m1T
I think we are getting somewhere, though I’m not there yet!
I’m using 2.5.1 because I was seeing the same “continue reading” line for every post instead of having the respective post titles (that happened when I went to 2.6.2).
Interesting the way yours looks different than mine. I will have to look hard at the other plug-ins. Could Jetpack be an issue?
It’s hard to tell. Older versions of this plugin (and the current version if you don’t use excerpt_length or excerpt_more) allow the excerpt to be customized by your theme and plugins.
I recommend you try 2.6.2 again. Versions 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 had some issues with the new excerpt features, and 2.6.2 was released specifically to fix it in your theme. More information here: https://github.com/billerickson/display-posts-shortcode/issues/110
