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Currently, when a user clicks on a category of listings, they are taken to a page that shows boxed listings of every business in that category. This is perfect for me, but some of them have a small amount of copy, while others are loaded with text.
How can I get this category listing to only show a summary, or excerpt, of whats on the business's listing page? this way he listing page is a bit more uniform in its layout.
Also, I dont want to change a setting that effects every category on the site, this is a multi use site and only a section of it is for Business listings. so it should only effect the listings. I have a pagelistings.php that pulls the content if this helps.
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Greetings neuroticartist,
I believe this can indeed be accomplished for all sites in the network, but for just individual sites I think not.
However, I certainly do not know everything, and possibly the lead developer could make it so that excerpts from a post may work too instead of the full blown listing.
Therefore to get the low down on this for sure I will see about getting the lead developer in here with his invaluable insight into the Directory plugin to see if indeed there is a way to do this and any advice he may have to accomplish this feature if at all possible.
Though this may take a bit longer then a normal ticket, I will try to get him in here asap.
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Thanks Arnold, I am assuming the category listings and the listing pages both use the page-listings.php? or does only the category listings use that page? if thats the case,I am assuming thats where I would switch out the code for something like <?php $excerpt = get_the_excerpt( $deprecated ) ?>
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Thanks Arnold, no matter what I tried it would crash the page or show no content at all. Showing nothing made me check in my functions.php and there was no instances of an excerpt function so I added this
and without having to make any changes to my page-listings.php or dashboard full text or summary, it seems to be working great now. Only shows an excerpt with the "More Info >" link
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Greetings neuroticartist,
I believe this can indeed be accomplished for all sites in the network, but for just individual sites I think not.
However, I certainly do not know everything, and possibly the lead developer could make it so that excerpts from a post may work too instead of the full blown listing.
Therefore to get the low down on this for sure I will see about getting the lead developer in here with his invaluable insight into the Directory plugin to see if indeed there is a way to do this and any advice he may have to accomplish this feature if at all possible.
Though this may take a bit longer then a normal ticket, I will try to get him in here asap.
Cheers, Joe
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Thanks Joe, He's been really helpful so far (so have you) I appreciate it and look forward to his reply
Roz
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Next version adds an excerpt field to the input. You can also modify the template to use http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_excerpt to display a fixed nu,ber pof words.
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Thanks Arnold, I am assuming the category listings and the listing pages both use the page-listings.php? or does only the category listings use that page? if thats the case,I am assuming thats where I would switch out the code for something like
<?php $excerpt = get_the_excerpt( $deprecated ) ?>would this be correct?
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Thanks Arnold, no matter what I tried it would crash the page or show no content at all. Showing nothing made me check in my functions.php and there was no instances of an excerpt function so I added this
and without having to make any changes to my page-listings.php or dashboard full text or summary, it seems to be working great now. Only shows an excerpt with the "More Info >" link
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