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You may have a look at my blog to see what it looks like (no promising as I play around alot :)).
I use only one featured post and also hide the image on the blog page, as I don’t want it to compete with the slider images.
@Kitsune: It’s better to use margin-bottom than margin as it gives you better control.Cheers,
Alexander @ http://www.mouseclick.comHi all!
Thank you for your hints and your time, its great this forum!
One question, is possible to use the same format in the full post and in the home page when this contein that?
Thank you in advanced!
Unfortunately, while the suggestions above worked as far as getting the full posts to show up, it also brings the unwanted problem of having the Feature Image show up in the post – which often times is a duplicate of an image in the actual post itself.
I love this theme, but the way it handles excerpts and feature images is sub-par.
In general there are three major designs on the market: Picture blogs, mixed blogs and writer blogs. Pinboard is a mixed blog: You can write an excerpt on the home page and add an image to be displayed. That’s what makes the blog, thats what the designer wanted and thats what makes the beauty of it!
It’s not the theme that handles the automatic excerpt but WordPress. The function automatically display the first 55 words of the post’s content and strips any HTML code by defintition. And the handling of the featured image is straight forward too. Almost every theme the information to display is structered in a certain design. That design is what makes the theme and why people are choosing it. Saying that some themes like Pinboard are not designed to show full posts on the blog home page. It’s simply not intended to do that.
If you need something complete contrary to the design concept and you’re not able to implement it by yourself than please at least: don’t blame on the theme.
Think about it.
Here is a link to Aarons blog where he described how to improve the WordPress core function of the excerpt: http://aaronrussell.co.uk/legacy/improving-wordpress-the_excerpt/
Cheers,
Alexander @ http://www.mouseclick.comGood that I’ve found this thread,
mybe somebody can help me.I did as I read here changed excerpt with content an i works fine – but:
Now I have 2 pics in my post.How to avoid that?
Thanx!
Greets
Geri (http://www.geri.at)Geri, this is the problem I was referring to above. You probably have a “feature image” set for your post, correct? And you probably also have the same image actually in the body of the post, correct? If so, that’s why it’s showing them both. You need to remove the feature image for the post to avoid having this happen.
As Alexander states above, this is how the theme was intended to be used. It’s not that it’s wrong, it’s just not to everyone’s liking.
I’ve worked around it by using a plugin that offers full control over excerpts and their length and formatting. That way I can use the feature image, and have formatting in the text that shows on the main blog page.
See here for example: http://www.thegraphicmac.com
The only issue with my workarounds is that it places a Read More… link at the bottom of every post on the blog’s main page, even when there isn’t more to read and I haven’t manually added the read more code in the body of the posts.
Basically, once you’ve figured out a way to work around the limitations of the theme to get what you want, it’s a fantastic theme.
That being said, I wouldn’t upgrade to the latest theme version if you like the thinner main blog page column with no sidebars (as seen in the link above). The 1.0.7 theme update changes to full page width when no sidebars are present.
I must be an idiot but when I try to find <?php the_excerpt(); ?< nothing comes up. I have tried every content file in my Editor and I can't find it. What am I missing? I emailed gindavall too because she is AWESOME! Anyways, can anyone PLEASE help me? I'm going crazy here.
gindavall,
You please duplicate the content.php. And, please to the “content_true.php” the file name.
Please make the following code of “content_true.php”.<article id="post-">
< class="entry-title"><a href="" rel="bookmark" title=""></>
And, please be changed to the following contents of the "index.php".
<section id="content" >
<?php if( $count
This code makes it fullpost the first 3.
“index.php (Modified)”
<?php if( $count$count <= 3 … first 3post to full.
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$count <= 1 … first 1post only fullUh-Oh, code does not appear.
I know how to solve the problem of gindavall.
This is because I have the same problem.
Is there a way to tell the PHP code?Hi!
Thank you, macgizmo – looks good for me.
And you were completely right…!But at the moment I post in a way, so I don’t need to have the format.
But I will favourite this post, I’m sure earlier or later I will need it again…! 😉
Greetings from Vienna
GeriSolution.
Step 1,
You duplicate “contents.php” on ftp, and file name “contents_true.php”.Step 2,
“contents_true.php”
‘the_excerpt()’ → ‘the_content()’Step 3,
Change the contents of next link, the code of “index.php”
http://pastebin.com/JQTFga97*The line 21 of this code
if( $count <= 3 ) … "3" is Number of full post from first.OK?
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