Several questions

  • kryptale

    (@kryptale)


    17 years, 6 months ago

    Honestly, I have several questions and I really wasn’t sure where to post them since they seem to cover the topics of several boards here.

    I picked up the Premium Template called Arras.Theme Gaming Edition, and while I’m satisfied with the look and feel, there are things I want changed. There doesn’t seem to be a support forum for it anymore, so excuse me for asking questions related to it here, as I’m just trying to find someone that might be able to help me out.

    The beta (“test”) for this layout is located here, while the current official version is here. Now, I’m a total WordPress noob, so please keep that in mind.

    On the main site, you can see that the content displayed for each post is the text that fills the “Excerpt” area when writing the post. With the new theme, it simply uses the first 55 words of the full post, which I don’t like. How can I change that?

    Also, I use the Star Rating for Reviews plugin for the review scores on the main site. I also set it up on the beta site, but while the star images do display in the excerpt on the main page, they do not on the new Theme I’m using.

    If anyone can be of help, thanks. If not, I understand that this isn’t exactly a support forum for my theme.

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  • Len

    (@lenk)

    17 years, 6 months ago

    With respect to the first question, under the “write post” block is another block called “Excerpt”. Put whatever you want in there. See this link http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt paying close attention to the very first paragraph.

    Thread Starter kryptale

    (@kryptale)

    17 years, 6 months ago

    Yeah, I’m aware of this, as I have to do the same for the main site. I posted an excerpt in the field that says “Review test,” but the front page on the beta site still comes out with the [rating:4.5/5] text, which is posted in the main body.

    I’d like to display the excerpt instead.

    Dgold

    (@dgold)

    17 years, 6 months ago

    Is that flash-looking area on the beta site, from a plugin? Or part of the theme?

    Well, we would have to find the template in your theme, that is supplying the code for that section of the site. Often-times it would be in your Main Index Template, in many themes. Here, in yours, it may be part of a plugin or a different php included template.

    Where-ever that code is, you’re probably changing something like
    <?php the_content_rss(); ?>
    into something like this
    <?php the_excerpt(); ?>

    i hope this helps ya find it

    just read thru all the template files in your theme… look for something about the_content or the_excerpt

    Thread Starter kryptale

    (@kryptale)

    17 years, 6 months ago

    Looks like I’ve got it working. Thanks.

    Now if only I can figure out why the Star Ratings aren’t appearing correctly.

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