Character Limit on Staff Page

[john worsham]

I can’t seem to find the setting to change the character limit for the Staff List page for each staff ember.

Also, the “…more” or “Read More” links are not appearing.

Thanks.,

[Bill Robbins]

Hey John,

The staff listing uses WordPress’ excerpt function. To change its character count and other attributes, I would use a plugin like Advanced Excerpt to handle that.

Let me know if you run into any trouble there.

Bill

[john worsham]

Thanks. Any thoughts on getting the “Read More” link to show? Thanks.

[Bill Robbins]

I believe the plugin has an option to add and customize a read more link for the end of the excerpt. If it won’t let you add one, let me know.

[john worsham]

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[Bill Robbins]

Sorry John. There is a function in the theme to trim off the […] that WordPress automatically adds to the end of the excerpt. It may be interfering with the plugin. Here’s how to take that out:

1. Go to the Appearance section in your WordPress control panel and select Edit.
2. From the list of files on your right, choose functions.php
3. Delete this section:

   
   // Filter Excerpt to remove [...]
   	function organizedthemes_excerpt_more( $more ) {
   		return '';
   	}
   	add_filter('excerpt_more', 'organizedthemes_excerpt_more');	
   

4. Save your changes.

See if that changes things for you.

[john worsham]

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[Bill Robbins]

Well sorry the plugin didn’t do the trick. We can always do this the old fashioned way. In place of the snippet we deleted above, add this in its place:

(Be sure to copy that from the support site directly and not the notification email.)

You can replace the Read more... with the text you’d like to have as a link. Just be sure to leave the space before the first word so that there will be a natural space in your text. You can also adjust the length of the excerpt by changing the 120 to the number of words to use (the default is 55).

Let me know how that goes,
Bill

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[Bill Robbins]

Anytime John. Have a great week.

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