[Resolved] Remove Entry Content From Category Pages

[Carson]

How can I remove entry content from category archives?

[Leo]

Hi there,

So only show the titles on category archives?

If so this CSS should help:

.archive.category .entry-summary {
    display: none;
}

Adding CSS: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

Let me know 🙂

[Carson]

Thanks a lot for the reply! That would work, but I’d prefer to just remove it all together instead of just not showing it. Is there a hook for that or something?

[Leo]

You can use this filter:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate_show_excerpt/

Let me know if you need help with the code 🙂

[Carson]

Thanks, I’d need help with the code too. 😀

[Tom]

There isn’t really a way to remove it completely.

What we could do is something like this:

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

    return $show;
} );

add_filter( 'excerpt_length', function( $length ) {
    if ( is_category() ) {
        $length = 0;
    }

    return $length;
} );

Then use Leo’s CSS just to hide the empty element.

[Carson]

Is there a way to make this also work on posts where I used the “more” tag? For the others it seems to work fine.

Also, I have set a custom page where the latest posts are shown, Is there a way to hide the excerpts there as well?

Thanks for the great support on a Sunday!

[Leo]

Unfortunately the more tag overwrites the normal excerpt function so the solution would be to remove the more tag.

Also, I have set a custom page where the latest posts are shown, Is there a way to hide the excerpts there as well?

So do you actually want to remove excerpt globally? If so it would be much easier to set it to 0 globally:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/blog-content-layout/#archives

Let me know if I’m missing something 🙂

[Carson]

But this only allows excerpts or full as options or is there another setting?

[Leo]

Select excerpt and set the length to 0.

That’s basically what Tom’s code is doing.

Let me know 🙂

[Carson]

Ah I see. And there is no way how to overwrite the more tag on some pages?

[Leo]

Try this:
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/is-it-possible-to-make-gp-to-ignore-more-tag/#post-875026

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

That will do it to all pages.

[Carson]

Awesome, that worked, thanks a lot!

[Leo]

No problem 🙂

[Carson]

Sorry, I ran into another issue. I am using this code now:

add_filter( 'wp_trim_excerpt', 'db_excerpt_metabox_remove' );
function db_excerpt_metabox_remove( $excerpt ) {
	$output = $excerpt;
	
	if ( is_archive() && has_excerpt() ) {
		$output = '';
	}
	
	return $output;
}

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

    return $show;
} );

This seems to work fine on category pages, but doesn’t work on the custom blog page (I am not using the homepage as the blog page).

I am mostly using custom/manual excerpts instead of the “more” tag and I want both to be hidden on any kind of archive page and the blog page.

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