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How do I hide summary / preview text on homepage?
7 replies · Started by Greg on June 27, 2018
Hi, currently on my homepage there's a list of posts with snippets/blurbs of summary text followed by "... Read more" links.
How do I change it so that the summaries are completely gone and it's just titles (and maybe the dates)?
Thanks so much for any help with this!
- Greg
Hi Greg,
if you have the Blog module active you can set the Excerpt to 0 in the Customiser > Layout > Blog.
Awesome, thank you David! I'm so glad Tom found you btw. I totally know what it's like doing everything by yourself, and it ain't fun!
I was lost, now i am found lol - helping Leo and Tom is an honour. Glad i could help!
Hi David,
It looks like this parameters doesn't work right now. I am using the last version of GP and WordPress (on a website in french)
Customizer > Blog > Blog Content.
I set "Extract", and whaverer the number of lines I set (0, 1, 10), the full extract is displayed.
Instead, I had to use
.entry-summary {
display: none;
}
Hi there,
that option only applies when if is the automatically generated Excerpt - it doesn't apply to the Manual Excerpt or when the Read More link is being used.
Oh... that's why...
I don't see why this decision was made, I guess there is a good reason.
Thank you David.
Its the way WordPress works.
It checks to see if there is a Manual excerpt or a Read More.
If there is it displays it.
If not it takes the post content and passes it through a trim words function and displays that.
The reason is because both Manual and Read More allows the user to decide what to display for each post.
Overriding that with the word count would make both options unnecessary :)
