Blog archives layout settings seem to not be working

Hi there,

what happens if you disable the Child Theme?

Hi David, that is one of the first things I tried but it made no difference

Can you temporarily disable it so i can take a closer look at whats going on?

Sure will disable it now

Very odd.

Were those posts imported or from an old site?
What happens if you create a new post or convert one of the old ones in Blocks ?

They were create initially with wp bakery i believe, then i turned off wp bakery to use GP instead and was left with a bunch of shortcode which I removed

Let me try creating a new post, and also seeing what happens when converting one to blocks

So it looks like when I create a new post the archives page is displaying the excerpt properly

However, on existing posts even if i "Convert to blocks" it does not solve the issue.

I'm guessing the only solution will be to manually re-add all the posts?

Something in the database must be messing with the excerpts of those posts.
You could try copying and pasting to a new post and then rename to see if that works.

I've decided to just wipe the site and start from a clean slate and I'll just re-add the posts that way.

Looks like it wasnt a GP issue. Thanks for the support though!

You're welcome!

Although the customiser setting clearly says 'excerpt' for single posts, it still shows the entire story on page 1. Clearly, a bug there.

Hi Zahid,

Here's an article you may refer to regarding that issue: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/excerpt-issues/#full-post-content-displaying-while-using-excerpt

If you'll still need assistance regarding this, kindly open a new topic.