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.
Preview less information on three mainpage boxes
4 posts from 3 voices- Started 2 years ago by Jminner
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Hey,
you can reduce the excerpt length by adding following code to functions.php (at the very bottom)
function new_excerpt_length($length) { return 20; } add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');Ie. this code will reduce the excerpt to 20 words. Change the value as you like.
Posted 2 years ago # -
zaphod
MemberI'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.
I tried the new_excerpt_length() update you've suggested above, but that did not change anything.
I came across a suggestion (here http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/mainpage-column-3) to use "<--more-->" within the post content, but that does not work for me either, I simply see <--more--> along with the rest of the post. Oh, just noticed that is for another theme, maybe that's why it does not help here.
I do have an excerpt for the post in WP, why doesn't display simply use that ?
Any help appreciated, thanks!
Posted 1 year ago #
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