Plugin replaces auto-excerpt?

  • Resolved Fox Lee

    (@fox-lee)


    7 years, 1 month ago

    Hiya! I’m really liking this plugin, but I have a bit of a problem with its excerpt behaviour.

    In other places where I’ve used the_excerpt(), I have relied on its fallback behaviour of fetching truncated post text where there is no custom excerpt available. However, I can’t get this to happen in FPW.

    At first I thought the template was using some other function which I could just replace, but when I checked the files (big image template) I saw it was using the_excerpt(). Then I thought it was my theme, but even when I revert to Twenty Seventeen, still no summary.

    Is this an intended behaviour of the plugin, or should I keep looking for a bug in my site?

    If this is deliberate behaviour, do you have a recommendation for getting around it without editing the plugin core? It would be much more useful to me if it offered the usual behaviour of this function.

    NB: Of course I know how to add a proper excerpt, but I’m worried about getting my clients to do so. I’m doing a website for a charity organisation and it may pass through many hands, so I’m trying to minimise the number of things they need to learn.

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  • Plugin Author mrwweb

    (@mrwweb)

    Hi @fox-lee. I’m glad you like the plugin!

    There’s a filter for exactly what you need: fpw_auto_excerpt.

    Make sure to review the FAQ and documentation to see all the filters available.

    Thread Starter Fox Lee

    (@fox-lee)

    Ah! So it is FPW changing the default behaviour. I’m glad I stopped by to ask before I wasted any more time trying to “fix” my theme ^^;

    Thanks for the link to that filter also, seems like that should take care of it.

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