Excerpt/Subtitle

Hello,
I have a website (https://igormiranda.com.br/) that has been active since 2014, but I only recently installed the Newspaper theme. I have always used the Excerpt box (https://i.imgur.com/m7DmZsy.jpg) to add subtitles to my texts. However, when I started using the Newspaper theme, I realized that it only displays subtitles through the Subtitle section (https://i.imgur.com/9gpTnDf.jpg), which is specific to the theme.
This is a problem for me, because I have more than 16,000 posts that use the Excerpts box, not this new Subtitle that came with the theme.
How do I enable the Excerpt box within posts, so that I don’t have to compromise almost 10 years of posts?

Hey guys,

I have been a Newspeper user for many years and I also have the same problem and have been waiting for a solution for some time. We have hundreds of thousands of posts already published, all with the excerpt field filled in long before migrating to the TagDiv theme, but unfortunately your theme does not support this functionality.

I think this is a weak point of the Newspaper, after all the Excerpt field is a standard WordPress feature that should be taken into account as it is important.

I sincerely ask that a way to resolve this be evaluated as the subtitle field created by you is a feature that ends up not making sense, both for existing installations, with their exerpt contents already filled in and which end up being lost with the migration to Newspaper, as for new installations that adopt to your theme, as in any case it makes users have to do double work filling in two fields with the same purpose.

We hope you hear our plea about this feature.

Thanks

• This reply was modified 2 years by fabinhoalmeida.

Dear Calin,

First of all, I would like to thank you for your continued kindness and attention to us Newspaper users.

Yes, when I used the standard post style I did it like this through the child theme. When we migrated to the cloud template, we tried to call the excerpt by creating shortcode in functions.php, linking this shortcode to a raw box element or text box element by the tagDiv Composer in the single template. But that didn’t work for us. If you have any tips to make this work through some adjustment, it would be a welcome solution and will help us a lot. In any case, I ask that Newspeper be able to add an excerpt element in the future. It will be a gift for us!

Thank you very much

Hi Calin,
Thank you again for your attention to this issue.

In reality, your example is similar to the method I had already tried without success. In any case, I strictly followed your example, in the same way as you demonstrated here, and the result for me was the same: the created field appears empty, blank, without the excerpt inserted in the post appearing, even after saving the entries made.

See: https://imgur.com/a/JWwrJ5v

What could be going wrong?

I would appreciate it if you could help me with this.
Thanks.

Hello, when I conigure a single template in cloud templates I fins easily the option “single post subtitle”. How Can I write some like a “single pots excerpt”?
Thanks

Hi Calin,

Thanks again for your reply!

I tried using the method you shared from StackExchange — I added this line to my child theme’s functions.php:

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add_shortcode( ‘output_post_excerpt’, ‘get_the_excerpt’ );
Then I edited my Single Post Cloud Template in tagDiv Composer, added a Text block, and inserted [output_post_excerpt].

Unfortunately, the shortcode doesn’t render anything on the frontend. It just leaves a blank space where the excerpt should be. I’ve cleared all cache and reloaded everything, but still no result.

Is it possible that tagDiv Composer blocks don’t render shortcodes like this, or do I need a different type of block?

Any ideas or workaround would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks!

Hi Calin,

Thanks so much — the key was exactly what you said: inserting the shortcode in the Column Text element’s code/text area. Once I did that, it worked perfectly. 🙌

I really appreciate your detailed help and quick follow-up!

Best regards,

Hi Santiago,

You can also use the “Single External Shortcode” element that is available if you prefer. See:

https://img.onesignal.com/tmp/df804d19-2ea6-4ebd-bf16-f33e4e3894ee/7EFIKCOBQpi52fZjmTE9_Single%20Shortcode.jpg