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  • #9324
    Curt Kipp
    Participant

    We are using Epic for our Rotary Club website at http://www.wilsonvillerotary.com. Great theme! The one issue we are having is that the news feed items in the widget cut off after a certain point, yet no link is provided for the users to read the rest. It just cuts off. How do we fix this?

    Also it would be nice if there was a way for links to show up in these excerpts. It seems to scrub them out.

    #9325
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Curt,

    Thank you for your business first of all. I’ve been planning on adding those links in the next theme update. We just added them to our church site running the theme and it seems to be a good addition. Here’s how to add them to yours:

    1. Go to the Appearance section and select Edit.
    2. From the list of files on your right, choose widget-home-posts.php and look for this section:

    3. Replace that with this:

    4. Save your changes.

    That will make two changes for you. It switches from showing the excerpt (which filters out links, images and so on) to the content (which shows everything). It also adds in the ability to place the more “quick tag” where you’d like the content to cut off on the home page.

    Essentially when you’re writing your post, place the cursor at the end of the word where you’d like the post to stop on the front page. Then click the “more” icon in your editor. That will place a break there and should also give you a read more link.

    If you have any trouble, let me know.

    Thanks again,
    Bill

    #9333
    Curt Kipp
    Participant

    Thanks, Bill. That worked perfectly and did exactly what I wanted. I appreciate your help.

    Wanted to let you know also that we are using the new version of Foundation on one of our sites, http://www.wilsonvilleconcerts.com, and it is great! Love the changes from the old Foundation (which we still use on a third site, http://www.wilsonvilleheart.com).

    #9339
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    I’m glad that worked for you and thanks for sharing the other sites with me. I always love seeing what people cook up with the themes.

    Take care,
    Bill

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