Handling Excerpts workaround

  • I’ve just started working with the Drop Cap Shortcode, but as a workaround to the problem with the Drop Cap not showing up in excerpts (such as search results), I’ve added a little custom CSS to the Customize > Custom CSS/JS. In short, I created a class with transparent text in a 1px font. Text that is rendered with that class becomes virtually hidden in the WP page, but will show up in excerpts.
    .hiddenText {
    color: transparent;
    font-size: 1px;
    }

    Suppose you have a drop cap letter [M], then you could replace that with this:
    [M]<span class="hiddenText">M</span>

    This would also be my suggestion for the author of this neat little plugin: this workaround could easily be incorporated in the plugin itself. By the way, it seams that the plugin is no longer being actively maintained, but it still works with my “unsupported” WP version.

    • This topic was modified 5 months, 2 weeks ago by svvhhk. Reason: missing text

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