jmu289

Thank you!

#1 With the “Override default excerpt with content” is it possible to limit the excerpt to a specific number of characters? When I use this hook it takes ALL of the content from my page and puts it in the excerpt. But I only want to show the first 50 characters (The layout editor “Character limit” seems to be over ridden).

#3 Will this hook change all PostGrid’s to the same image?

#4 I don’t see “HTML element” under the layout editor. Is this a Pro feature?

Another question! (Sorry to send you so many at once).

I have a shortcode that I custom coded. The shortcode is [cfsval key=”poa_adv_member” post_id=4609]

This shortcode displays, on the front end, the value of the custom meta field “poa_adv_member”.

Is there a way to show this shortcode in my PostGrid Excerpt? Right now, the excerpt does not display anything.It is blank in the excerpt. Probably because I did not add any code the the PostGrid plugin, so it does not recognize the shortcode.

You can see how the shortcode displays here on this page: https://pomskyownersassociation.com/topic/acacia-pomskies/
And you can see here in the PostGrid excerpt that the shortcode does not display: https://pomskyownersassociation.com/lessons/available-pomskies-portal/

For reference, this is the code I added to my functions.php file of my theme to display the shortcode:
<?php
// [cfsval key=”cfsval-value” post_id=20]
function cfs_values( $atts ) {
$a = shortcode_atts( array(
‘key’ => “”,
‘post_id’ => “”,
), $atts );

if(!empty($a[‘key’]) && !empty($a[‘post_id’])){

return CFS()->get( $a[‘key’], $a[‘post_id’]);
}
}
add_shortcode( ‘cfsval’, ‘cfs_values’ );

?>

Another question actually. Previously you provided me with this hook: https://www.pickplugins.com/documentation/post-grid/filter-hooks/filters-post_grid_filter_html_media/

Could you describe what this does and what I need to modify in the hook? Could I use this to display an external image URL as thumbnail? Or is this only for internal URLs? Could you give a bit more info on what this does and how I can use it?

Thanks!

Thank you very much. Just two more questions.

1) I have added the hook as described here. What do I do now to achieve this desired formatting? Notice in that image I want each line of text on a separate line. How do I do that with the hook? This is how it looks now, I assume I need to replace the ‘before’ and ‘after’ from the hook with some type of HTML but I don’t know what type of HTML would give me a line break after every sentence? Any suggestions for what to do now? I tried using the </br> break, but with this hook it adds the break ‘before’ and ‘after’ the excerpt. I need it within the excerpt such as after the line “POA Member:” and after the line “New Litter:”.

2) How do I reduce the amount of space between the “read more” button and the excerpt? See this image, notice there is a lot of space between the last line of the excerpt and the “See More Photos” button. How can I reduce this?

Thanks!

Hello again. I’ve looked to edit my “read more” text as you show here https://imgur.com/ZEWb6Yl but this is not an option on my end. See this photo of how read more looks on my end. Why do I not have the “read more text” textbox like you are seeing?

Also, is there anyway to format excerpt text? See how it currently looks, notice there are not page breaks in between sentences (i drew in red where I want page breaks to be) versus how I want it to look with page breaks. Any suggestions on how to format this? Maybe a third party plugin?
Thanks!

One other question now that I think of it. Post grid displays the “Featured” image of the post. Is there anyway to change this and display a different image? I have a featured image for each post, but I want post grid to display a different image that I select (not the featured image). Is that possible?

Hello, sorry for they delayed reply on this. I have a couple followup questions.

When you say “Yes, its possible to change read more text via layout editor.”. What is the layout editor? Sorry if this is a simple question. Where can I find the layout editor to edit this, is this part of the Post Grid plugin?

Is there an easy way to add hooks? I have limited coding ability so editing my core theme files worries me. Any plugins or something I could use to add these hooks without me risking messing up my core files?

Thanks for the help!