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Excerpts stopped working
15 replies · Started by Bill on March 26, 2019
Hello,
Since upgrading to Gutenberg, new post excerpts seemed to stop working on the blog page (I just added one). I inserted a Read more tag and it works that way but the posts created before Gutenberg work fine.
Thanks!
Hi there,
I'm unable to duplicate this and haven't had this issue reported.
Can you remove the read more tag so I can try to locate the issue?
Let me know :)
Sure! I just removed the tag. It is the latest blog and the excerpt disappeared once I removed the tag.
Can you make sure there is nothing added in the excerpt meta box?
https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/add-excerpts-to-your-pages-in-wordpress/
Make sure there is no space or anything.
Yes, I don't have anything in the excerpt box.
There isn't space like this?
https://www.screencast.com/t/YDY8onZG1
One other user had the issue and this was the problem.
That's the only reason I can think of.
No. I just double checked.
Ok. Can you disable all plugins except GP Premium and send us the login access to the dashboard?
You can use Account Issue form here:
https://generatepress.com/contact/
Please make sure to reference this topic URL.
And can we create a couple test posts if we need to test?
Thanks!
Thank you, Leo. I just emailed the info.
So looks like it's something specific to that post.
Were you using any sort of third-party block plugin in there?
I see this error when editing the post:
https://www.screencast.com/t/vzrKEQfaD
I also created a test post and the excerpt is working correctly:
https://www.screencast.com/t/c7dpEYumgSp
I left it in there so you can check.
Let me know :)
Hmmmm...strange. I don't use a 3rd party block plugin. I just converted to HTML and all worked.
Thank you for looking at this.
FYI that block came from here:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/
Thanks!
I will dig deeper into that.
Might be good to report it to their support.
Hopefully they already know...
Ok, I see it added the string
<!-- /wp:tadv/classic-paragraph -->
Once I removed it, all worked perfectly.