[Support request] post excerpt error in homepage

[James]

Hello,

Only one post displays the whole post text on homepage. Other posts display titles without excerpts (I have set the excerpts length to zero).

I want to display titles only. What’s the problem of the only post? Please help me.

Thanks very much!

[David]

Hi there,

seen this a couple of times before – for no explainable reason WP outputs the content.
What happens if you create a new post does that one display correctly?

[Olasiyan]

Please I’m facing the same problem… I think it happens when you changed the post format from standard to any other format.
In my old theme, if I wanted to publish music I select format as music, video i select format as video…
Going through all my published post contents… All those posts showed the whole text content.

[Olasiyan]

Except those ones published in standard format… Even in search or tag pages they display the whole post contents

[Leo]

Hi there,

Try this PHP snippet:

add_filter( 'generate_show_excerpt', function( $show ) {
    if ( 'audio' === get_post_format() ) {
        $show = true;
    }

    return $show;
} );

Adding PHP: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/

Let me know if this helps 🙂

[Olasiyan]

Thanks it works

[Leo]

No problem 🙂

[Olasiyan]

I just detected this morning that same error occurred for videos as well… And what if i have other post format like Quote and others that I’ve used in my previous theme? How do we deal with that?

[David]

Hi there,

so this part of the code checks to see if its an audio post:

if ( ‘audio’ === get_post_format() )

We can extend that to check for multiple post formats eg.

if ( 'audio' === get_post_format() || 'video' === get_post_format() || 'quote' === get_post_format() )

[Olasiyan]

I’m getting php error after inserting this new code

[David]

the code should look like this:

add_filter( 'generate_show_excerpt', function( $show ) {
    if ( 'audio' === get_post_format() || 'video' === get_post_format() || 'quote' === get_post_format() ) {
        $show = true;
    }

    return $show;
} );

[Olasiyan]

It did work for now… If I notice any error in any other format… Will get back to you

[Leo]

You can keep adding the condition in the if statement if you need other post format included as well.

You can see all of them listed here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_format

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