Excerpt on Brig Grid 6

I looked all setting but didn’t find how to activate excerpts on Big Grid 6.
Had to switch back to Newsmag 2.1 because 2.2 had problems with Easy Social Share Buttons.

Please advice how to enable excerpts on the Big Grid 6 – Thanks!

Hi

The big grid 6 wasn’t designed to display excerpts, so to achieve that you need to modify the modules used to built the grid by adding this line of code: http://screencast.com/t/7t2r2mFzRd – http://screencast.com/t/3pUY6zpIA6r

<?php echo $this->get_excerpt(20); ?>

Notice that you may need some additional customization that the excerpt to be displayed fine in big grid 6.
Regarding the Easy Social Share Buttons plugin we didn’t test it with the theme, so it’s possible to appear some issues.

Thanks!

Added the code in Module 10 – in Module 11 it was already there.
No result. No excerpt. Yes, I clean up the cache.

Easy Social Share Button is a very popular plugin – you should test it. It is displaying the buttons, but no shares are visible with your theme.

Hi

Sorry for that, I pointed the wrong files, please try to modify this files: http://screencast.com/t/cVyMuqnhe – http://screencast.com/t/yFPwpW5rMfG Also try this custom css if you want to change the excerpt color: http://screencast.com/t/gcSt2Es2

.td_block_big_grid_6 .td-excerpt{
color: #FFFCFC!important;
}

Let me know how it goes!

Thanks!

EXCELLENT THANKS!
Result can be seen here: http://www.salzburg12.at/

Another quick question: how do I shorten the expert in the Big Grid 6 Block? It’s too long esp. for the smaller pictures.

Hi

To modify the excerpt length just modify the value from the get_excerpt() function as you like: http://screencast.com/t/kreLW7fL

<?php echo $this->get_excerpt(3); ?>

Thanks!

• This reply was modified 10 years by Andrei L..

Hmmm. I have

<div class=”td-excerpt”>
<?php echo $this->get_excerpt(4);?>
</div>

in Module in td_module_mx10 and td_module_mx11

Excerpts are shown, but not truncated to 4 words. See http://www.salzburg12.at in Big Grid 6

Please advice.

Hi

It works fine on my side so please make sure you added the code like here: http://screencast.com/t/V67YTTFzln0D – http://screencast.com/t/NwMQOXx5SjJ also clear all caches and test again.

Let me know how it goes!

Thanks!

not working but I found another way which suits more for me.
I just left the code in mx11 and removed it in mx10 – so the excerpt is only shown in the big picture 🙂

Hi, i tried to modify the modules on my site ( http://www.caminantedigital.com.ar/ ) in order to show excerpts in big grid 6, it worked fine, except for custom css that i wasn’t being able to set in the colours I requiered.

But today after upgrading Jetpack Plugin and Font Awesome 4 Menus plugin, Bottom sections in homepage and sections showed crashes between pic and description, and also in “More articles box” is happening something like that.

I restored the modules td_module_10 and td_module_11 to the unmodified ones, but i can still seeing excerpts on the grid, and the mess down in the homepage.

Do you have any clues of what possibly happened?

Thank You

Hi I have already empty cache using WP Super Cache plugin, but i am not sure how to purge CDN files.
The same mistakes are showed in the homepage.
Thanks

Hi

Please check this guide regarding purging cdn: https://www.nginx.com/blog/9-tips-for-improving-wordpress-performance-with-nginx/ Also try to deactivate all plugins except visual composer, empty all caches again then test again. If the problem persist please provide the css code that you’re using so I can inspect it closer. I’ve also test test this on your site and the css for for excerpts works fine: http://screencast.com/t/v9DTOB56pUA

.td_module_10 .td-excerpt {
color: red;
}

Thanks!

Thanks a lot Andrei.

The problem was related to the thumbnail sizes, i found a tutorial in the TagDiv documentation, and it just worked perfect (regenerate-thumbnails plugin) so far now its ok.

I’ve swaped big grid to a “Masonry Grid: Blur Out” and it makes the trick with the exerpts.

Tomorrow i am going to check again for the categories main pages, i figured a possibly error in my sintaxys while adding the css.

But I want to ask you what to do with the modules if, i want that the excerpt shows only when the user pass his/her mouse over the Gridś Thumbnail?.

Thanks a lot again!

• This reply was modified 10 years by rovito.

Hi

You can achieve that via css like in this example:

.td_module_10 .td-excerpt{
opacity:0;
}
.td_module_10:hover .td-excerpt{
opacity:1;
}

Thanks!