Read more tag for excerpt in blog block?

  • Resolved willemb2

    (@willemb2)


    2 years, 1 month ago

    For the Blog Posts block you can set a number of words for the excerpt length in the newsletter. Whatever value I choose, this makes the excerpt always cut off on an unfortunate point for some posts.

    Is it possible to make the excerpt use all text before the Read more tag in the post like MailPoet does? Or is there an add-on that makes this possible?

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  • Thread Starter willemb2

    (@willemb2)

    P.S. whatever number I set at ‘Excerpt words’, 30 or 40, it always adds an excerpt of 20 words.

    Thread Starter willemb2

    (@willemb2)

    Nobody?

    Plugin Author Roberto Fietta

    (@webagile)

    Hi, can you please try to change also the WordPress setting for the excerpt length?
    Regards,
    Roberto

    Thread Starter willemb2

    (@willemb2)

    Thanks, @webagile! I had to experiment a bit with that. It appeared that this has been set at 20 by our theme (Avada). But I could increase that to 50 without causing problems elsewhere. The blog archive content elements have their own setting.

    Now I can set ‘Excerpt words’ at 50 in Newsletter and it respects the Read more tag as long as I put that < 50. In practice I will probably choose something like 30 35.

    So to conclude: Newsletter takes the global WordPress setting for the excerpt length as a maximum for ‘Excerpt words’ and respects the Read more tag as long as you put that at a point < ‘Excerpt words’. I could not find that in the documentation.

    Plugin Author Roberto Fietta

    (@webagile)

    Thanks for the feedback, precious to improve our documentation.
    Regards,
    Roberto

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