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1. 

   jzahlaway
   Member

   Hi, all. Does anyone know what code I should add to functions.php in order to have a homepage that will display full posts for posts that DON'T have any content in the manual-excerpt field, and that will display ONLY the manual excerpt for posts that DO have content in the manual-excerpt field?

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. 

   jzahlaway
   Member

   Wow, really? I figured this would be an easy one (you know, easy for someone other than me, because I apparently am of limited intelligence and can't figure this out on my own).

   If it helps: Here's how it's accomplished by editing the template files directly instead of accomplishing it via the elusive code I'm looking to place in functions.php:

   If you only want WordPress to display a manually added excerpt and you don´t want WordPress to automatically generate any excerpts for you, then in your index.php file follow the instructions in the code below:

   //Replace the_excerpt() template tag
   <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
   
   //With this:
   <?php if ( $post->post_excerpt ) the_excerpt(); ?>

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 

   jzahlaway
   Member

   Well, it took me all day, but I finally sussed it out on my own.
   In case anyone's interested, this is what I added to functions.php:

   function childtheme_content($content) {
   global $post;
   if (is_home() || is_front_page()) {
   		if ($post->post_excerpt) {
   		$content = 'excerpt';} else {
   		$content = 'full'; }
   		} elseif (is_single()) {
   			$content = 'full';
   		} elseif (is_tag()) {
   			$content = 'excerpt';
   		} elseif (is_search()) {
   			$content = 'excerpt';
   		} elseif (is_category()) {
   			$content = 'excerpt';
   		} elseif (is_author()) {
   			$content = 'excerpt';
   		} elseif (is_archive()) {
   			$content = 'excerpt';
   		}
   return $content;
   }
   
   add_filter('thematic_content', 'childtheme_content');

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 

   helgatheviking
   Moderator

   didn't see this until just now. nice solve. when filtering, you don't have to copy over the entire function if you aren't making changes.

   function childtheme_content($content) {
   global $post;
      if (is_home() || is_front_page()) {
   		if ($post->post_excerpt) {
   		$content = 'excerpt';} else {
   		$content = 'full'; }
   	}
   return $content;
   }
   
   add_filter('thematic_content', 'childtheme_content');

   this should also work the same

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. 

   jzahlaway
   Member

   Great. Thanks, Kathy. I'll trim it down. :)

   Posted 1 year ago #

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