Blank paragraph at top of page exerpt

Hi ZeroGravity,

I don’t seem to be able to replicate this issue on my end. Do you have a link you can share where I can see this for myself. Also a couple more questions:

1. What Genesis theme are you using?
2. What other settings in my GFPA plugin do you have enabled? (That way I can exactly replicate your setup)
3. What are you using to enable excerpts on pages, the add_post_type_support function, or another plugin?

Thanks!
Nick

Thanks for your quick response Nick!

I’m wondering if I may have inadvertently discovered the problem. But first here are the answers to your questions.

1) Enterprise Pro 2.1.1

2) These are the settings I used and have checked. Others are unchecked.
* Title
* Feature a Page
* Show Featured Image
* Image Size – featured-image
* Img Align – Center
* Enable Image Link – checked
* Show Page Excerpt
More Text – “[Read More…]”

3) I added this code to functions.php

//* Add excerpt support for pages */
add_action('init', 'my_custom_init');
function my_custom_init() {
	add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' );
}

I am wondering if this may have been the cause. I didn’t know that paragraph tags were being added automatically and I placed them around the first paragraph in the page excerpt. This gave the blank paragraph at the top of the widget. When I removed the paragraph tags from around the first paragraph in the excerpt the blank paragraph disappeared.

Could this actually be a WP issue instead of the plugin?

Thanks
Darren

Hi Darren,

No this is actually the default functionality of the plugin. Usually, people only have one block of text for the excerpt so the plugin adds the paragraph tags around it for styling. Sorry about that.

Also when you pull page content, it adds the paragraph tags, so to make things consistent, I added paragraph tags to both the excepts and custom content.

I am glad you were able to find the solution!

Best,
Nick

Yep, I’m the difficult one who adds lists and other HTML into custom excerpts. ??

Have you every considered extending the plugin to include post and/or custom post types?

Thanks
Darren

Hi Darren,

I have not considered it, since my original goal was just to create an enhanced version of the plugin that is already apart of Genesis, but it really would be that hard to extend the plugin. However, due to other projects I don’t have any plans for this. Sorry….

Nick

No Worries, understand. Just curious. ??