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Archive Category Pages Displaying Entire Post on Video Post Type

3 replies · Started by Morgan on February 27, 2023

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This one has been bugging me for a while...

For some reason, my category/archive pages are working fine with any post type=standard with a small pic, headline and excerpt. But any post with type = video, is trying to display the ENTIRE ARTICLE instead of the excerpt like the standard post types do.

Link Here:
https://www.thesmokies.com/category/sevierville/

For visual reference, I want all posts to look like this:
https://media.thesmokies.com/2023/02/Standarad.png

And NOT this:
https://media.thesmokies.com/2023/02/Video.png

Hi there,

so a video post format, doesn't generate an excerpt by default, as it relies on displaying the Content with its HTML intact so as the Video embed can be displayed.

You can tell GP to load an excerpt using this PHP Snippet:

add_filter( 'generate_show_excerpt', function( $show ) {
    if ( 'video' === get_post_format() ) {
        return true;
    }

    return $show;
} );

Reference: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/excerpt-issues/#full-post-content-displaying-while-using-excerpt

But this will treat it like any other post ie. a featured image and excerpt. Not a video thats within the content.

Does that work for you ? Or must the archive show the video embed before the excerpt ? ( as thats a lot more tricky )

Worked PERFECTLY thank you again David

You're welcome!

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