Title: display description text on single-unit.php
Last modified: December 1, 2016

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# display description text on single-unit.php

 *  Resolved [wpdev999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdev999/)
 * (@wpdev999)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-description-text-on-single-unit-php/)
 * I need to some help with a frustrating problem… I’ve started a custom WP theme
   that is based on the default CoursePress theme from the plugin directory. We 
   have a course set up with several units, and we are trying to preview the course.
   Each unit is made up of multiple elements including images, text, questions, 
   etc. When I preview a unit, none of the “Text” elements are being displayed. 
   Instead they say “… Read More”. This seems to be an excerpt problem, but where
   is this defined? I changed the excerpt_length in functions but this did NOT fix
   the problem. I know that single-unit.php is the page being called to display 
   the unit, but I cannot figure out why it’s only displaying an excerpt. If I delete
   single-unit.php then then description text displays correctly. It also displays
   correctly using a default WP theme. It’s only when using the template provided
   by CoursePress that this text is not displayed.

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 *  Plugin Support [Predrag – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support1/)
 * (@wpmudev-support1)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-description-text-on-single-unit-php/#post-8505937)
 * Hi [@wpdev999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdev999/),
 * Hope you’re doing well 🙂
 * Could you upload your customized theme to any file sharing service like dropbox
   or gdrive and share download link here so we can test it out and check what could
   be causing this for you?
 * Cheers,
    Predrag
 *  Thread Starter [wpdev999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdev999/)
 * (@wpdev999)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-description-text-on-single-unit-php/#post-8506597)
 * [@predrag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/predrag/)
    I should have been 
   more clear in my initial post. The problem is not limited to my custom theme.
   This exact same problem happens using the unmodified CoursePress theme. My custom
   theme so far has only changed the visual styles. There have been no edits to 
   the code for each page. The problem is in the unmodified CoursePress theme you
   provide.
 *  Plugin Support [Imran – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support9/)
 * (@wpmudev-support9)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-description-text-on-single-unit-php/#post-8512420)
 * Hello [@wpdev999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdev999/), I hope all 
   is well!
 * > When I preview a unit, none of the “Text” elements are being displayed. Instead
   > they say “… Read More”. This seems to be an excerpt problem, but where is this
   > defined?
 * I can’t reproduce the same on my site. Would you please deactivate all the other
   plugins again and try to preview the Unit. Just to clarify, the issue is only
   when you are previewing the unit, right? Once you login as a student the units
   showed with no issue?
 * If everything is well, activate one plugin at a time to find the one that causes
   this.
 * Would you please also post some screenshots so we could see it?
 * Please advise,
 * Cheers,
    Nastia
 *  Plugin Author [jdailey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdailey/)
 * (@jdailey)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-description-text-on-single-unit-php/#post-8577010)
 * We have not heard from you in a while. Thank you for giving CoursePress a try.
   I’m gonna mark this resolved for now but if you’re still having issues please
   reopen and we’ll get right back to you.

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