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• July 8, 2013 at 2:14 pm #10711
  josefstevens

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  I am having issues with the length of the blog excerpt. No matter what I do I cannot get the blog to show only an excerpt (this site is primarily a blog and uses the blog page as home page). I set the excerpt length when adding the Blog template to the page using the Page Builder. I read a previous post where it says to use a Custom Excerpt if not using the Swift Page Builder for blog posts, but this does not work for me.

  I am re-designing a site that has hundreds of posts that have to be imported, and they cannot all be transferred into the Page Builder but I need to show only an Excerpt.

  Any help?

  July 9, 2013 at 4:54 pm #10908
  Cosmin – SUPPORT

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  Hi,

  Try editing /includes/sf-content-display/sf-post-formats.php and on line 260 replace this:

  custom_excerpt($custom_excerpt, $excerpt_length);

  with this:

  excerpt($excerpt_length)

  Save the file, test and let me know how it goes.

  Regards,
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  Cosmin – Support

  July 9, 2013 at 5:16 pm #10913
  josefstevens

  Member

  Post count: 7

  Thank you for the response.

  Unfortunately this did not work.

  July 9, 2013 at 5:25 pm #10918
  Cosmin – SUPPORT

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  Ed, any tips on having it use the standard excerpt, so that he doesn’t have to edit all the posts?

  Regards,
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  Cosmin – Support

  July 10, 2013 at 2:46 pm #11021
  Swift Ideas – Ed

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  Post count: 15264

  Hi there,

  By default it’s limited to 60 characters, you can change this in functions.php line 1202:

  function new_excerpt_length($length) {
  	return 60;
  }
  

  – Ed

  July 11, 2013 at 12:16 pm #11170
  josefstevens

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  Post count: 7

  The issue is not the length of the excerpt. The issue is the fact that I cannot get an excerpt to show. No matter what I do only the full length post shows.

  I have tried setting the excerpt in the Page Builder – no luck. I have tried using a custom excerpt (as suggested elsewhere) – no luck.

  The site will be primarily a blog and I need to show excerpts.

  July 12, 2013 at 3:15 pm #11366
  josefstevens

  Member

  Post count: 7

  It may be interesting to note that when I click on a category archive that the page does show and Excerpt. It is only on the home page, which uses the Swift Page Builder and the Pre-Built Blog template where I cannot get excerpts to show.

  Hopefully this may help.

  July 15, 2013 at 1:57 pm #11555
  Swift Ideas – Ed

  Keymaster

  Post count: 15264

  Hi Josef,

  What version of the theme are you using? Can you provide a link to the page so that I can check your setup?

  – Ed

  July 15, 2013 at 3:03 pm #11568
  josefstevens

  Member

  Post count: 7

  Thank you for the response. I have been able to correct the issue by eliminating the Pre-built blog template in the page builder and then selecting it from “Choose elements”.

  Why it works in one way and not the other I do not know. Right now the site is behind a maintenance page so cannot be viewed without logging in. If you would like to see it let me know and I’ll send login information in a private reply.

  Thanks again.

  July 16, 2013 at 2:21 pm #11743
  Swift Ideas – Ed

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  Post count: 15264

  Glad you managed to get around it. We’ll double check to make sure nothing is wrong before the next update.

  – Ed

  October 12, 2013 at 8:50 am #26414
  aovivo

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  Post count: 51

  yes, i experienced the same issue.

  no excerpt on my main page.. once i filled some text in the ‘Custom Excerpt’ Section – it appears on the post-preview (but not the complete text it wys supposed to display).. weird…

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