Excerpts Losing Formatting

Resolved soulofmiami
(@soulofmiami)

13 years, 4 months ago

Using theme Atahualpa. I have set the theme options to NOT strip certain HTML tags from excerpts, such as p a em strong. But, when I use [catlist excerpt=yes] it strips all formatting from the excerpt. In previous versions, it did not do this.

By keeping the formatting, the Category lists created by this plugin look very nice and neat. By losing the formatting, the lists with excerpts just look bland and messy.

Is there any way to fix this?

Site is: http://www.soulofmiami.org. The Featured Events section on the stickied “Front Page” post should be neatly formatted like this:
Date
Location
Address
1 line description

But, as you can see, it all runs together, making it difficult to read. I would love to see the formatting back, or an option to use the formmatting.

Thanks for all your help!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-category-posts/

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Plugin Author Fernando Briano
(@fernandobt)

13 years, 2 months ago

Sorry I changed the code once again. I kept the HTML tags stripped since that used to be the default behaviour:

excerpt – Display the post’s excerpt. Default is ‘no’, use excerpt=yes to activate it. If you don’t have an excerpt in your post, the plugin will fetch this text from the content, striping its images, shortcodes and HTML tags. The limit is set by the *excerpt_size* parameter (55 words by default). If you want the automatically generated excerpt to respect your theme’s allowed HTML tags, you should use excerpt_strip=no. If the post has an excerpt, the HTML tags are automatically stripped. If you want to overwrite the post’s excerpt with an automatically generated one (may be usefull to allow HTML tags), use excerpt_overwrite=yes. I added this last parameter to have consistency across excerpts.

Plugin Author Fernando Briano
(@fernandobt)

13 years, 2 months ago

With this new parameter: excerpt_overwrite, you can get all automatically generated excerpts. Hope this helps!

jt70
(@jt70)

13 years, 2 months ago

Hi picandocodigo,

Thanks for the changes. It makes the plugin good for my needs again.

What I like about this is that it won’t automatically use the HTML without permission. On the legacy catlist command, it will display the manual excepts as text without breaking the layout of the page.

The challenges…
1. It does make it a manual chore to go back and update all my lists. Again, though, the layout stays intact, so it is a surmountable problem.
2. I probably still can’t make a hybrid list, but on the bright side, I can leave the listings with both types of excerpts alone until I have 100% manual excerpts entered. And the failure mode would just be a long excerpt left in the listing, so nothing major.

Thanks for getting this taken care of. Much appreciated.

Plugin Author Fernando Briano
(@fernandobt)

13 years, 2 months ago

Yep, after releasing the 0.30 version I realized it was wrong to use the HTML so I inverted the functionality so that you ask it specifically to use the HTML.

Glad it worked out in the end!

phew72
(@phew72)

13 years, 2 months ago

The update works perfectly. Many thanks once again Picandocodigo, I’ve just left a glowing review of your plugin.

josuch
(@josuch)

13 years, 2 months ago

Hi I am using the mantra theme and I just updated this plug-in. http://arewecrazyorwhat.net/ I had this plug-in set to display excerpts and it was working great but now (after the update) when the excerpt box is checked it displays the pictures from the various pages. I would really like it back the way it was. I do not have the thumbnail box checked. Are there any fixes for this?

Sogwap
(@sogwap)

13 years ago

Is there any way to get the plug-in to act like default WP.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Excerpt

How to add excerpts to posts

To add an excerpt to a post, simply write one in the Excerpt field under the post edit box. An excerpt can be as short or as long as you wish. Usually, given its purpose, a couple of sentences is fine. If adding the excerpt manually, you may use (some) HTML formatting and the tags will not be stripped.

Excerpt, automatic excerpt, and teaser

The manual WordPress excerpt is often confused with the automatic excerpt or with the teaser (the part of a post that appears on the front page when you use the More tag). While both are related to the manual excerpt, they are different from it.

The relationship between the three is this: When a post has no manual excerpt and the post template uses the the_excerpt() template tag, WordPress generates an excerpt automatically by selecting the first 55 words of the post. When the post template uses the the_content() template tag, WordPress will look for the More tag and create a teaser from the content that precedes the More tag.

To summarize:
If using content=yes, WordPress (and Catlist) default behavior displays everything in the content area, preserving HTML formatting. The only exception would be if <!–more–> tag is used.

If using Excerpts, WordPress default behavior, is to first check if there is a custom excerpt if so, display it and preserve (some) HTML tags. If there is no excerpt it pulls from content stripping HTML tags. Unfortunately this is not what Catlist Version 0.30.3 does. 🙁

It seems the plugin Version 0.30.3 either keeps the HTML tags or strips them. Where-as the default WordPress Excerpt behavior, keeps certain HTML tags in the Excepts and if there is no excerpt it takes the content but strips HTML tags.

The problem with this is that if their is no excerpt and you ask to keep HTML tags it displays images etc.