Choosing Blog Excerpt Option Messes Up My Forums

[BeccaB]

I love the author theme! I am having one major problem though. I want my blogs to be automatically excerpted on the main page. But when I choose that option in the customizer, it also impacts my Forums page, which means my forums no longer display correctly. It doesn’t do it to any other pages – just the main page and the forums. Any ideas on how to stop this? I want to excerpt my blog posts, but not my forums. Thanks! Here’s my site: https://writing.huntgatherbrew.com/

[Ben Sibley]

Hey Becca,

Glad you like the theme! I’m not that familiar with bbPress so this might take a few tries to get right (my apologies in advance).

First, create a new Page and add the following “shortcode” to it:

[bbp-forum-index]

Then publish this page, and turn the excerpts back on in the Customizer.

This is simply a different way to display the forum homepage except this way it should ignore the excerpt option set in the Customizer.

[BeccaB]

Hi Ben – Thanks for your quick response and help!

Okay…and I swear by all that is holy I tried that exact thing like five times…but I just diligently went and tried it again — and it worked! Maybe I had slightly different shortcode? Before it made the bbpress font look funny AND still excerpted it too. But now it seems to be working. Can you click on my site and click on the discussion forums and make sure it looks okay to you and I’m not just crazy? Thanks!!!

https://writing.huntgatherbrew.com/

[Ben Sibley]

Awesome!

It’s looking good to me. For reference, here is what I see:

Forum home: https://pics.competethemes.com/image/3b2L3p0c0f1e
General discussion forum: https://pics.competethemes.com/image/103c1D2A2C46
Forum thread: https://pics.competethemes.com/image/3m1L2P3Z1b2l

[BeccaB]

Okay awesome – thank you!

One small (I hope) related question – the excerpts all center on the main page. Is there a way to adjust that so they are left justified instead? Like the full articles are?

[Ben Sibley]

Yes, that can be done with the following CSS:

.archive .post-content,
.blog .post-content,
.search .post-content {
  text-align: left;
}

You can copy and paste that code into the “Custom CSS” section in the Customizer (Appearance > Customize). Once added there, it should take affect right away.

[BeccaB]

Ah, fabulous! That totally worked – thank you so much for all your help!

[Ben Sibley]

You’re welcome ??