Blog display option/alternative

Hi @jedpsychodrama,

Nice! I’m glad you and your visitors are happy with the switch to WordPress, and Baskerville.

The way Baskerville handles videos, the videos are displayed in the post previews on the archive pages if they come first in the post content, followed by a <!--more--> tag, followed the post content itself. The post content will then be excerpted to a suitable length for display in the post preview.

I’ll be the first one to admin that I don’t love this solution, but since themes on www.remarpro.com aren’t allowed to have post meta boxes, a solution that used the post content field was needed. The reason for why it isn’t allowed is that the data added to those post meta boxes would be lost when the user switched theme, which is, to be clear, a very good reason.

The short answer is that there is no simple way to automatically format your posts to fit the format Baskerville uses for video posts. You would either have to do some pretty complicated database queries or update them manually. As for galleries, these are the steps to add them to a post:

== Use the gallery post format

1. Go to Admin > Posts > Add New.
2. Select the “Gallery” post format in the Post Attributes box.
3. Click “Add Media” and upload the images you wish to display in the gallery.
4. Close the Media window and publish/update the post.
5. The images you uploaded should now be displayed in the post gallery.

Again, there’s unfortunately no simple way to automate this process.

Sorry for the bad news. Let me know if there’s anything else you need help with.

— Anders

Thank you for the quick response. It’s not bad news actually, it will only take some additional effort on my part. I experimented with about 12 themes and decided to stick with Baskerville since I really like the layout and 10/10 users appreciate the new look, thus I asked if there is a way to fix the way it’s presented.

I used the ‘more’ tag anyway.

Ah, since I’m here already, can the ‘comment’ at the end of every post on the homepage be deleted? I wish it would only show either ‘featured’ (for a sticky post) or simply the date of the post itself.

Thank you so much!

No worries! To remove the comments link from the previews in the post archives, go to Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS (the menu labels might be different in your language) where you enter the following code:

.posts .post-meta a.post-comments { display: none; }

That should hide them in all previews.

— Anders

Great! Thank you again.