Size of post box on front page – not allowing correct display

Hi I had a look and the read more buttons issue seems to be the common wordpress problem when having “excerpt snippets” set for posts. I think adding the following code to your child themes functions.php should fix it.

function my_excerpt_fix ( $excerpt ) {
    if ( has_excerpt() && ! is_attachment() ) {
        return $excerpt . satisfy_excerpt_more( null );
    }
    return $excerpt;
}
add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'my_excerpt_fix' );

About the cropped images on front page that can’t really be changed (for the moment). Your alternative here is to set the option “Featured images in blog loops” to “full” and they won’t be cropped but have bigger size though.

What links do you mean are not displaying? Could you give an example?

Great, I will add the scrips to the child functions. php and play around with the featured images in blog loops.

On links not displaying in all the posts on the front page there are links to other pages in the excerpts – e.g. second post down: Super Quick and Healthy Banana, Peanut Butter and Almond Smoothie there is a link in the text to the recipe at the start of the second sentence – it doesn’t show as a link. I guess it might not be designed to?

Many thanks!

Hi – I added the code above and no change to ‘read more’ ??

I purged my cache etc.

Many thanks!

That’s weird. I actually use the code above on a site and it works. Are you using a plugin for the excerpts or the “normal” WordPress ones from inside your posts? Just try and disable all your plugins for a quick sec and see if that changes anything.

Nope WordPress pretty much removes all links and html from the excerpts it extracts from posts. In custom excerpts links work though if you add them with html.

Hi!

Sorry for the delay.

I deactivated plugins, purged the cache and no change.

??

Hm are you using “<!—more—>” tags for excerpts in your posts? I just noticed the theme doesn’t support those and the code I gave you won’t work then. There will probably be some fix for this in the next update, but right now you could try and remove the code I gave you and replace with this and see if that fixes it.

function my_excerpt_fix ( $excerpt ) {
    if ( $excerpt && ! strpos( $excerpt, '<a class="btn btn-default read-more"' ) && ! is_attachment() ) {
        return $excerpt . satisfy_excerpt_more( null );
    }
    return $excerpt;
}
add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'my_excerpt_fix' );

You are a star! It worked. Thank you so much!!!

(I am using “<!-more> tags)”.

Haha great! No problems