Categories show full posts

  • Hey,

    Does anyone know how I can make the categories of my blog show the full page when you view it in the archives.

    So when you view an archives date, a tag, or even do a search the results always come back with the blog title, no image, and the first paragraph with this on the end: […]

    But when you click on a category on my blog, I want it to display the whole post including an image and the full paragraph.

    I’ve seen this somewhere before but I can’t remember, so I’m pretty sure it is possible.

    Any help is appreciated.

    Thanks.

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  • Depending on your theme, it is probably controlled in the archive.php file. Find the_excerpt() and replace with the_content().

    Thread Starter danaldinho

    (@danaldinho)

    I just edited:

    <p><?php if ( is_category($vidcat) ) { the_content(); } else { echo strip_tags(get_the_content(), '<a><strong>'); } ?></p>

    But it didn’t work how I wanted it.

    It didn’t display the images and add the space between each paragraph.

    Can you post a link to a page that shows the problem? What was the code before you edited it?

    The code you showed will only display the full content for the category specified in $vidcat. If what you want is the full content for all categories, you can change it to this:

    <p><?php the_content(); ?></p>

    Thread Starter danaldinho

    (@danaldinho)

    In archive.php, I had this:

    <p><?php if ( is_category($vidcat) ) { the_content(); } else { echo strip_tags(get_the_excerpt(), '<a><strong>'); } ?></p>

    I edited it to be:

    <p><?php if ( is_category($vidcat) ) { the_content(); } else { echo strip_tags(get_the_content(), '<a><strong>'); } ?></p>

    And here is a category page: https://www.lilwaynehq.com/category/audio/

    Looks like you need to try just <p><?php the_content(); ?></p>.

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    echo strip_tags(get_the_content(), '<a><strong>');
    Will strip images from the (full) content.
    Why don’t you use:

    <p><?php if (is_category()) { the_content(); } else { echo strip_tags(get_the_content(), '<a><strong>'); } ?></p>

    Now you have full posts with pictures on category pages and on other pages you will have full posts without pictures.

    But from what I can see u make use of the_excerpt(); somewhere because you have those […] thingies on your category page.

    I think the original code had get_the_excerpt();

    <p><?php if ( is_category($vidcat) ) { the_content(); } else { echo strip_tags(get_the_excerpt(), '<a><strong>'); } ?></p>

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    Yeah but that is changed and the category page still uses the excerpt somewhere because of the “[…]”.

    echo strip_tags(get_the_content(), '<a><strong>');
    This will give you a full post without images and no “[…]”.

    So I suggest to just use:
    <p><?php the_content(); ?></p>
    And see if anything changes.

    And also check with in_category() in stead of is_category()

    Thread Starter danaldinho

    (@danaldinho)

    Thanks both of you, it worked.

    Appreciate it so much!

    Glad you got it working! Now, please use the dropdown at top right to mark this topic ‘Resolved’.

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