http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/preview-less-information-on-three-mainpage-boxes Support Forum - Topic: Preview less information on three mainpage boxes en-US Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:05:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.kriesi.at/support/search.php http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/preview-less-information-on-three-mainpage-boxes#post-26472 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:47:33 +0000 zaphod 26472@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Hrm so thought I'd try using valid html like "&lt;!--more--&gt;" and that works!</p> <p>Still curious why the standard excerpt is not used ? </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/preview-less-information-on-three-mainpage-boxes#post-26470 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:34:24 +0000 zaphod 26470@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>I'm having the same problem as the original poster. The entire post shows up in my mainpage columns. I'm using Display v 1.4.1 and WP 3.2.1.</p> <p>I tried the new_excerpt_length() update you've suggested above, but that did not change anything.</p> <p>I came across a suggestion (here <a href="http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/mainpage-column-3)" rel="nofollow">http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/mainpage-column-3)</a> to use "&lt;--more--&gt;" within the post content, but that does not work for me either, I simply see &lt;--more--&gt; along with the rest of the post. Oh, just noticed that is for another theme, maybe that's why it does not help here.</p> <p>I do have an excerpt for the post in WP, why doesn't display simply use that ?</p> <p>Any help appreciated, thanks! </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/preview-less-information-on-three-mainpage-boxes#post-16403 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:21:00 +0000 Dude 16403@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>Hey,<br /> you can reduce the excerpt length by adding following code to functions.php (at the very bottom)<br /> <pre><code>function new_excerpt_length($length) { return 20; } add_filter(&#39;excerpt_length&#39;, &#39;new_excerpt_length&#39;);</code></pre> <p>Ie. this code will reduce the excerpt to 20 words. Change the value as you like. </p> http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/preview-less-information-on-three-mainpage-boxes#post-16363 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:07:32 +0000 Jminner 16363@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ <p>I apologize if this has been answered, but I've searched a variety of text strings in this forum, and I haven't found it yet. I am trying to show less information under my three display boxes. I see others' sites who have one or two sentences, then it says "Read more". No matter what I do, I seen to have my entire page link text showing up on the mainpage, which kind of defeats the purpose of "read more". I appreciate this fantastic forum, it's already helped me solve a few issues so far.</p> <p><a href="http://dpsmn.com/" rel="nofollow">http://dpsmn.com/</a> </p>