Odd excerpt issue

Hello!

It looks like your theme or a plugin is modifying the default excerpt to add that ‘continue reading’ in there, and the link is stripped out by the shortcode.

You can try using the following code in a small plugin or in your child theme’s functions.php to get the ‘raw’ excerpt with links included:

function tecs_raw_excerpt( $excerpt ) {
	return get_the_excerpt();
}
add_filter( 'ecs_event_excerpt', 'tecs_raw_excerpt' );

Does that work?

Hi,

I am pulling my hair out, I was wondering how do I get the code to display the full description and not just the excerpt. I tried both excerpt=’true’ and I also tried a large number like excerpt=’1000′ but they both seem to be only displaying the first sentence no matter what I try. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

@gman250

The shortcode actually uses WordPress’ excerpt function which would limit what is being returned. Normally this is the first 55 words, unless your theme or another plugin is further limiting the output.

In the pro version there is the option to return the full description, and even a raw description with no links or other HTML stripped out:

https://eventcalendarnewsletter.com/events-calendar-shortcode-pro-options/#description

Hope that helps, if not let me know!

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Brian Hogg.

@callerpatty

The pro version now contains an option to leave the excerpt as-is using raw_excerpt if you’d rather not put in the above code:

https://eventcalendarnewsletter.com/events-calendar-shortcode-pro-options/#raw_excerpt

Finally got around to checking this out and that little function snippet worked great!
Thanks!

I do have the pro version. After a long battle I finally got it to work with this:

[ecs-list-events excerpt=’2000′ description=’true’ raw_description=’false’ thumb=’false’ venue=’false’ eventdetails=’true’ hiderecurring=’true’ limit=’30’]

Thanks Brian!