[Resolved] Custom Home Page Excerpt

[Pam Mandel]

Love, love, love the theme, thanks. So much good stuff. Thank you. (www.nerdseyeview.com)

Can I set a custom excerpt for the home page? Is that something available in the theme or is there a GeneratePress compatible plugin you recommend before I dive into the deep mines of the WP plug-ins library?

Thanks much.

[Tom]

Glad you’re enjoying it! Nice site 🙂

You can set a custom excerpt point using the more tag: https://generatepress.com/knowledgebase/using-the-more-tag/

To set a completely custom excerpt, you can use the “Excerpt” metabox while editing your post.

If you don’t see it, click the “Screen Options” tab at the top right of your edit post area, and check the “Excerpt” checkbox.

Let me know if that helps or not.

[Pam]

ALMOST, Tom, thanks.

I do get the custom excerpts but the “Read more” link is gone. There are instructions here on adding code to get that link back, but…

1. I don’t see <?php the_excerpt(); ?> in my Loop
2. Nothing happened when I added the other recommended string to my functions.php.

Please advise? Thanks so much.

[Tom]

Give this function a try:

add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'generate_manual_excerpt_more' );
function generate_manual_excerpt_more( $excerpt ) {
	$excerpt_more = '';
	if( has_excerpt() ) {
    	$excerpt_more = '&nbsp;...<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">Read more...</a>';
	}
	return $excerpt . $excerpt_more;
}

Adding PHP: https://generatepress.com/knowledgebase/adding-php-functions/

[Pam]

TOTALLY worked. Thanks so much!

[Tom]

You’re welcome 🙂

[Pam Mandel]

NEVER MIND. Solved it.

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