kaplunkiigirl

Please note that I’ve currently forced this with CSS but I’m wondering if there’s a more elegant/designed way to achieve this.

Thanks.

I just tested it in Firefox, and you’re right, it’s not flickering in that browser.

Thanks for the update and I look forward to the next major release.

Hi Joe,

I’m having the same issue, which is big usability issue for the non-techie users I’ll be setting this plugin up for.

I can provide access to a dev/sandbox environment if required.

Would love to get a solution for this, as it’s the only roadblock to using this great plugin.

Thanks.

Nikki

Brilliant, thank you for figuring this out.

I installed W3 Total Cache on my problem site and activated the object cache and my queries dropped from around 700 per page to load to just 50.

I’m still not sure what it is about this site in particular that means it’s going crazy with the query options, because I have other sites on the same server without an object cache that are not doing this.

But I’m very glad to have this site behaving itself now! Thanks.

I am also having the same issue on one of my sites and would love to know how to fix it, so I will watch your post very closely for a solution.

Glad you got it working.

I’m going to post that code snippet here that helped you for anyone else who comes looking, in case that link breaks at some point:

function excerpt_more_link_all_the_time() {
	// Remove More Link from get_the_excerpt()	
	function more_link() {
		return '';
	}
	add_filter('excerpt_more', 'more_link');
	//Force read more link on all excerpts
	function get_read_more_link() {
		$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
		return '<p>' . $excerpt . '&nbsp;...&nbsp;<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">Read&nbsp;More</a></p>';
	}
	add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'get_read_more_link' );
	
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'excerpt_more_link_all_the_time' );

Perfect, thank you. That’s what I needed to know.

I added the filter (and I already had a manual excerpt), and now the “Read more” link shows up.

It’s odd that there’s no way to retain the HTML from a manual excerpt, because I have some plugins and archive templates that do seem to keep it.

e.g. https://www.yawarra.com.au/tutorials/

which uses Dynamik Website Builder on Genesis, with the default archive content template, so I wish I knew how they managed it.

Hi Hector,

Any progress on this feature?

I’d still love to be able to do this.

Thanks,

Nikki

Ah, well it looks like I won’t be able to resist the Pro version any longer then ?? Good to know!

Fixed, thank you!

Hi Richard,

I’m having the same issue. I have full text in the testimonial, and hand-crafted manual excerpts in the excerpt field.

I’m using the testimonials in the widget in my sidebar. If both field values are in place, the full testimonial displays, and not the manual excerpt as it was doing previously.

If I remove the full testimonial, and leave the manual excerpt in place, the manual excerpt displays correctly.

If I remove the manual excerpt and leave the full testimonial in place, it does NOT create an auto-excerpt, and still uses the full testimonial.

The only field I have checked for display in the widget settings is “Use Testimonial Excerpt”.

Feel free to have a look at my widget here:
https://www.yawarra.com.au/about/

Thank you,

Nikki

Hi Hector,

I was just looking for the ability to filter by tags, just the same as you can currently do for categories (and having the option to use both at the same time or just categories or tags would be ideal), so I’m glad to hear that it’s on the “To do” list.

I’d definitely like to add my vote for this feature. Any idea how far down the track it might be?

Thanks,

Nikki

OK, I can see that now, thank you. I didn’t realise that the “daily” flag in the shortcode corresponded to the “daily” setting in the back end, which I had set to 30 days, but now that makes sense. And my widget is set to show the last 30 days as well, so that makes them match up.

So whatever categories are excluded in the settings are excluded automatically from the widget, but the period can be customised on the fly. And whatever “daily” period is set to in the settings is applied automatically to the shortcode (provided you use the “daily” flag) but you have to exclude the categories separately. Is my understanding correct?

So can you explain why the shortcode only displays 3 posts when the daily flag is not set but the exclude_categories is? Because of the top 6 posts (without daily or exclusions), only 2 are adventures and 4 are recipes, so I still don’t understand that fully.

And the widget was displaying my home page as one of my top 6 posts when I remove the ‘adventures’ exclusion from the settings, even though I have it set to only use posts in the results in the back-end settings, because I hadn’t also set the widget to display only posts.

I’m getting the sense that most of the differences are coming from not realising where the settings come from – the back-end settings, the shortcode settings or the widget settings, and there’s some differences in how they’re applied across them widget and the shortcode.

But I’m seeing now that mostly if I keep playing with the settings, I should be able to get the results I want.

I’ve just send you a message via your site with login details to my dev site.

I’ve done that on my dev site, but I’m not clear which combination of settings you want me to try out on the shortcode and the Top 10 settings, and what you’d like me to report back with.

I also could only get the shortcode to work properly if I used the “106” value in the exclude_categories, but that’s not a value I have access to from the front end i.e. when I edit the category, the only ID visible is 96.