Hi Guys,
I just installed this Excerpt plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-excerpt/) because I want more options and control over my excerpts than the Newspaper Theme can give me.
Unfortunately, after installation and configuration of the plugin, the Newspaper theme still controls my excerpts.
Question: how do I turn of the Newspaper excerpt control so this plugin can take over?
Thanks!
Hi,
The function get_excerpt() brings the excerpt on modules – http://screencast.com/t/izNnAyYWaEBs
It is defined inside the td_module.php file – http://screencast.com/t/q4v2LA0yuu
I didn’t do any tests with this plugin and the time doesn’t allow me to modify it so that it will work with the theme, sorry for this. If you can’t find the solution you may hire a professional developer to build this for you.
Thank you, Emil G.
Hi Emil,
Thanks, so if I remove the function from the module.php files, then the plugin should take over?
Hi,
No, the excerpt will not appear then, you have to modify the function or replace it with something else, you need to adapt the plugin to take over and do the same as the function did and you will need custom work for that, if you don’t have basic php/html/css knowledge we recommend you hire a freelancer from sites like: http://studio.envato.com/ if you don’t know how to do it yourself.
Unfortunately we cannot offer custom work as we work hard on the development, updates, fixes and support.
Thanks
So you are offering very limited excerpt options, but there is no easy way to disable it? (and let other plugins fill the gap!)
Quite disappointing 🙁
If I read the plugin description right, the reason it doesn’t work out of the box is that Newspaper doesn’t use the default the_excerpt function.
But the get_excerpt function can also be easily overridden. What Lucian means (I think) is that you need to not only remove Newspaper’s insertion of the excerpt, as in the screenshot, but also put in the plugin’s.
In the plugin’s FAQ I see this:
“Can I manually call the filter in my WP theme or plugin?
The plugin automatically hooks on the_excerpt() and the_content() functions and uses the parameters specified in the options panel.
If you want to call the filter with different options, you can use the_advanced_excerpt() template tag provided by this plugin. This tag accepts query-string-style parameters (theme developers will be familiar with this notation).
…”
So you just need to do that. P.S. If the plugin author has defined the_advanced_excerpt() the way others do, make sure you don’t use
<?php echo the_advanced_excerpt; ?>
but just
<?php the_advanced_excerpt; ?>
and give it options as described in that plugin FAQ. 🙂
If you try this out and still need more help deploying it, tagDiv or the plugin author might be able to help you depending on where your difficulty lies.
