include_excerpt and image_size arguments not working

  • Resolved splitmonki

    (@splitmonki)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    The page is http://kwmf.org/news-and-events/news/

    and the shortcode I’m using is:

    [display-posts category="News" posts_per_page="20" include_excerpt="true" image_size="thumbnail"]

    This was working fine until recently, when someone pointed out to me that images and excerpts weren’t showing. (Also, shouldn’t there be an ‘older posts’ or ‘next page’ link or something?) The category and posts_per_page arguments are working.

    The shortcode was pasted into the text tab, not the visual tab. The category is correct. No edits have been made to the functions.php file. I can’t think of anything that has changed that could be causing this. I tried removing and reinstalling the plugin, without success.

    I’d be incredibly grateful for a shove in the right direction. Thanks.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/

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  • Thread Starter splitmonki

    (@splitmonki)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Some more info:

    I just discovered that switching the theme to 2013 solves the problem.

    Here’s the thing though. The theme hasn’t been updated in about a year. The person who built the site customized it quite a bit but didn’t use a child theme, and I haven’t been able to sort that out yet. I’m just been recruited to help out. So it wasn’t a theme update that caused it. It also wasn’t the upgrade to WP 3.9.1.

    The problem didn’t exist on May 3rd or 4th, the last time I worked on the site, but it was present on May 11th (I have a backup from that date installed locally). In between those days, on May 7th, the Display Posts Shortcode plugin was updated. I thought I was onto something when I noticed that, so I tried installing the previous version of the plugin (I tried 2.2 and 2.3) but the problem remains.

    Back to being stumped. Thanks a lot to anyone who has any ideas or suggestions.

    Thread Starter splitmonki

    (@splitmonki)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Figured it out. On the off chance this helps someone else:

    The person who built the site edited the plugin directly (display-posts-shortcode.php) and changed

    $excerpt = ' <span class="excerpt-dash">-</span> <span class="excerpt">' . get_the_excerpt() . '</span>';

    to

    $excerpt = ' <span class="excerpt-dash">-</span> <span class="excerpt_content">' . get_the_excerpt() . '</span>';

    Because it wasn’t done in the theme’s functions.php file, the May 7 plugin update broke it, and of course the reversion to 2.3 didn’t help because it didn’t restore that edit.

    NenadDim

    (@nenaddim)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hi splitmonki,
    i have same problem but in mine display-posts-shortcode.php on row
    272 is $excerpt = ‘ <span class=”excerpt-dash”></br></span> <span class=”excerpt”>’ . get_the_excerpt() . ‘</span>’;
    Did you edit functions.php?
    thank you,
    nenad

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