[Support request] Dynamic Blocks – With Excerpt

[Vijay]

Hi Tom and Team,

Lovin the GP Theme Builder!

You made it so easy to use!

I notice its is so easy to display dynamic titles, categories, tags and event comment counts! Awesome!!!

How do I display the post excerpt? I tried, but can’t seem to find the right term or option

And can we similarly display page or custom post type excerpts?

[David]

Hi there,

there are 2 GP specific blocks added to the editor – you want the Dynamic Content block it allows you to display the full Content or the Excerpt.

The block also applies to and post type that supports the excerpt.

[Brenden]

The Dynamic Content block does work, but it is so limited compared to the GB Headline block. The Dynamic Content block does not have any styling/spacing options at all. It would be great if it was possible to pull in the post excerpt into the Headline block.

[Elvin]

Hi Brenden,

You have a point.

But for now, if you want a workaround, we can make a dynamic headline block display excerpt.

Here’s what you can do:

– create a Headline block and add dynamic-excerpt to its HTML anchor field.
– set the Headline Block’s dynamic value to “post meta” and add the_excerpt to the meta field name.

You then add this PHP snippet.

add_filter('generate_dynamic_element_text', function($custom_field, $block){

if($block['attrs']['anchor'] = 'dynamic-excerpt'){
    if ( ! empty( $block['attrs']['gpDynamicTextCustomField'] ) && $block['attrs']['gpDynamicTextCustomField'] == 'the_excerpt' ){
        if (has_excerpt()) {
            $excerpt = wp_strip_all_tags(get_the_excerpt());
            $custom_field = $excerpt;
        }
    }
	return $custom_field;
}
},20, 2);

But I think you can just wrap the dynamic content block w/ a container block and do your styling from there. 🙂 Headline blocks are meant for headings. 😀

[Brenden]

Both of your solutions are super helpful. I like using a container block and add styling to that. Thank you!

[Elvin]

Both of your solutions are super helpful. I like using a container block and add styling to that. Thank you!

Yeah that’s the most ideal way of doing it.

No problem. Glad to be of any help. 😀

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