Add content preview excerpt to related posts

[GTS75]

Is it possible to have the post excerpt display under the Related Products thumbnails? Currently at the bottom of my blog posts where the related products are shown it only shows the title and the author…and there’s only one author for my blog and showing the excerpt is much more valuable to me than showing the author name. Is there a way to control that? Or is there another workaround like using page elements to build what I’m talking about? Much appreciated guys. Thanks.

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Can you provide us an example url so we can check?
Thanks

-Rui

[GTS75]

http://gtsclothing.com/cutting-for-fall/

[Rui Guerreiro – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Is it your site being used live?
Is it possible to provide ftp access and admin access to WordPress so I can try some changes in the code?

-Rui

[GTS75]

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[David Martin – Support]

Hi,

Apologies, just clarify do you mean “Related Products” or “Related Articles”.

Thanks,
David.

[GTS75]

Ah crap sorry guys. I meant related articles. You can see them at the bottom of the link I provided. It shows the thumbnail and the author, but I’d like for it to not display the author (since there’s only one for all of them) and display the custom excerpt.

[David Martin – Support]

Sure, no problem.

Can you please add this PHP to your child theme functions.php file.

function sf_child_atelier_related_articles_excerpt_length() {
    return 20;
}
add_filter('sf_related_articles_excerpt_length', 'sf_child_atelier_related_articles_excerpt_length', 30);

Thanks,
David.

[GTS75]

Hey David – I noticed that I have a child theme from when I used the Neighborhood theme..but I don’t see a child theme listed for Atelier. What’s the easiest way to create one and then add that PHP? Rookie over here when it comes to that kind of thing.

Thanks in advance.

[David Martin – Support]

Hey,

If you head to your TF account and download the main zip folder it will contain one, then simply upload it and activate it.

Thanks,
David.

[JackV]

Hi, any chance to modify this code to show an excerpt in recent posts sidebar widget?

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
Please open to edit widget-posts.php file at /atelier/swift-frameowork/widgets/.

Find this code:-
<span><?php printf( __( 'By %1$s on %2$s', 'swiftframework' ), $post_author, $post_date ); ?></span>

Change to:-

$post_excerpt   = strip_shortcodes( get_the_excerpt() );
<div class="excerpt" ><?php echo $post_excerpt; ?></div>
<span><?php printf( __( 'By %1$s on %2$s', 'swiftframework' ), $post_author, $post_date ); ?></span>

Thanks
Mohammad

[cfairi]

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[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
You really need to setup child theme to make any changes in theme.
Thanks
Mohammad