I may be missing the point, but why are you using get_the_excerpt() on a single view? Wouldn’t you want all the content there, and not just the excerpt?
Also, why two instances of a div with class entry-content?
I had entry-content in as a quick place holder for a div I hadn’t created yet. It is fixed now.
Here is the original site we’re converting to WP.
Here’s the single post in this post type: http://www.manta.com/TOTD/operations/20140128/mphrqn0
and the archive for it:
http://www.manta.com/TOTD
The excerpt is repeated at the top of each post.
Here’s an example of the single post I have so far:
http://m.angiemeekerdesigns.com/totd/marketing20140115/
Thinking outloud.
They are importing a ton of content. For THAT content the excerpt is in a .csv. I could import that into a custom field and echo that on the single post without using the excerpt. That would solve this issue for the imported posts.
And that field would still be available for use going forward, but how could use that custom field as the excerpt in the archive instead of the automatically generated excerpt?
Seems like that would solve this issue pretty neatly.
Ok, poking around a bit.
To make WP switch out my custom field for the excerpt
add_action( 'save_post', 'my_custom_field_save' );
function my_custom_field_save( $post_id )
{
if ( $_POST['post_type'] == 'post' ) {
add_post_meta($post_id, 'custom_excerpt_field', get_the_excerpt($post_id), true);
}
}
And to then display that:
// Only output if we have tips data
if ($tips_data_pre['totd_tags'] != '' ||
$tips_data_pre['tip_article_headline'] != '' ||
$tips_data_pre['article_author'] != '' ||
$tips_data_pre['article_author_link'] != '') {
echo '<div class="tip-excerpt">
<p><div class="entry-content"></div>';
$custom_excerpt_field_data = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'custom_excerpt_field', true);
echo $custom_excerpt_field_data;
echo '<div class="entry-terms">' , do_shortcode('[post_terms taxonomy="totd_tags" before="See Articles Related To " taxonomy="totd_tags"] '), '</div>' ;
echo '</p></div>
Does that seem right?
If that works that’s freaking magic.
Thanks – adding context helps me understand a lot more what you’re trying to achieve 🙂
I’d suggest still using the excerpt, as that makes sense (to me), given the context here. It really is like a manual excerpt of the article.
Is it possible you’re using a plugin that is adding the “Continue reading –>”? The arrow is in a span with class “meta-nav”, which doesn’t appear anywhere in Genesis or the Genesis sample child theme, so I suspect a plugin (or something specific to your theme’s functions.php file) is filtering the excerpt and adding that.
Yeah, WP All Import is involved in this… The “excerpt” is actually a field of text that we’re porting into the excerpt field for these posts (not a true excerpt, ie, first x characters or words of the post).
I guess I didn’t explain that well enough above. They’re not actually using an excerpt from the post, but rather ALWAYS manually crafting an excerpt. SO the import they gave us – the “excerpt” is always one paragraph in it’s own column.
Right, that makes sense, and to me is a reasonable way of doing things given the old website and what you’re trying to recreate. I’m just saying that “Continue Reading –>” text is getting added by something (probably filtering ‘get_the_excerpt’), so the trick is to figure out what’s filtering it. I’d deactivate all plugins and see if that removes it.
Unless the importer plugin is adding it, which would be annoying and stupid. But if that’s the case, you should see that text in the manual excerpt field, and should be able to remove it there.
