aegisjester

It is not quite as simple as specifying just the parent category, but you can accomplish the same task using multiple taxonomy queries and excluding the children explicitly.

https://github.com/billerickson/display-posts-shortcode/wiki#multiple-taxonomy-queries

An example would be if you had a category “Parent” and sub-category “Child”. If you wanted to show just posts in “Parent” but are not in “Child”, the shorcode would be:
[display-posts taxonomy="category" tax_term="parent" taxonomy_2="category" tax_2_operator="NOT IN" tax_2_term="child" ]

You would need to add another operator (taxonomy_3, tax_3_operator, tax_3_term, ect) for each child category you want to exclude.

Bad formatting above, everything that is randomly linking is because I meant to say the a element (for links)

I’ve done this myself using CSS, the title has the class” title”, so you could use a selector like “.shortcode .title”, and the method here for truncating to one line:
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/truncate-string-with-ellipsis/

It basically boils down to specifying the max width of the line, then disallowing text wrap (and truncating with an ellipsis), its pretty flexible depending on what you’re trying to do.

I also use this method to truncate my post excerpt to one line, with the title above and the “Continue Reading” below:

.homenews-posts .excerpt {
    display: inline-block;
    overflow: hidden;
    white-space: nowrap;
    text-overflow:ellipsis;
    width: 380px;
    font-size: 11px;}

.homenews-posts .title {color:#239CE4;font-weight:bold;}

.homenews-posts .listing-item{
display:block;
margin: 10px 15px -10px 0;
padding:5px;}

.homenews-posts .listing-item img{
display:none;}

I had the same problem, I was able to fix it by changing the viewport in the header.php

default:
<meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width”>

changed to:
<meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1″>

After that, it looks great on all devices

That was it, thanks!