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Excerpt loses newlines

4 replies · Started by Luca on April 12, 2017

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April 12, 2017 at 10:35 pm #305294

Dear all,
hi everybody.

I am relatively new both to Wordpress and GeneratePress, so apologies if this is a silly question.

I would like the home of my blog to show excerpts of my posts (only one so far). I managed to find the option to show excerpts but the problem is that in the home page newlines are deleted.

I would like to show two or three paragraphs in the blog home and have them separated with a new line, as they appear in the blog post page. What should I change to have it displayed this way?

Thanks a lot for the help!

Cheers,
Luca

April 13, 2017 at 8:23 am #305439

Hi Luca,

Not quite sure what you meant by "new lines are deleted?"

I assume you've tried changing the Excerpt Length in Customizer > Blog > Blog Content and that's not what you wanted?

Can you provide a link to your page and perhaps show an example of what you have in mind? Thanks!

April 13, 2017 at 10:36 am #305514

Excerpts remove all HTML, including line breaks.

If you want to include line breaks/HTML in your excerpts, you need to use the more tag: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/using-the-more-tag/

April 14, 2017 at 1:06 am #305767

Thanks for both answers!

Tom's one is what I was looking for, thank you so much :)

April 14, 2017 at 10:18 am #305963

You're welcome :)

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