Problem with the 3 "read-more-dots"

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  • #16898
    Billie
    Participant

    Hi,
    I use the grid-layout and sometimes the three points are not displayed after the excerpts. πŸ™
    What can be the reason?

    Thank you for your help!
    Billie

    #16907
    Daniel Tara
    Keymaster

    The most probable reason is the post contains less then 55 words so the entire content is displayed instead of the excerpt.

    #16909
    Billie
    Participant

    Hi Daniel,
    no, this is not the case. The posts are much longer. The excerpt stops in mid-sentence.
    What else could be the cause?

    Thank you very much for your feedback.
    Billie

    #16956
    Billie
    Participant

    Okay, I have found the cause.
    The excerpt ends always with the 3rd row. The 3 “read-more-dots” are always displayed after 22 words. If the text includes some long words, it does not end with 22 words but the 3. row is full of 20 words, for example. In that case, the 3 “read-more-dots” are not shown.

    What can I do so I always get displayed this 3-dots?
    …… without playing with the length of the words, so that exactly 22 words fit on those 3 rows πŸ™

    #16977
    Billie
    Participant

    .

    No one here who likes to help me?
    πŸ™

    #17273
    mouthybroadcast
    Participant

    Hi Billie,
    This doesn’t exactly fix the problem, but I hope it helps. Try using a manual excerpt to describe your post. Some of mine on http://mouthybroadcast.com/ have a manual excerpt (“We Like Stuff”) but most don’t, so I’ll probably go back and fill that in.

    To enter a manual excerpt, edit the post, and the excerpt box will be near the bottom of the Edit Post page. It may not be enabled by default, so go to Screen Options at the top and be sure “Excerpt” is checked.

    Good luck! πŸ™‚

    Jennie

    #17287
    Billie
    Participant

    Hi Jennie,

    I was very happy about your tip. It is at least a workaround.
    Thanks for that!!

    Billie

    #17888
    Billie
    Participant

    Hi Daniel,

    I still have trouble with this problem.

    I think, that the problem would be solved if instead of words the characters would be counted – with spaces. How Can I change, maybe? In the functions.php?

    Thank you very much!!
    Billie

    #17932
    Billie
    Participant

    Hi again,

    is any nice guy here who likes to help me?
    I would appreciate it very much!!

    Thanks in advance.
    Billie

    #17946
    Daniel Tara
    Keymaster

    See if this post helps you solve your problem.

    #17952
    Billie
    Participant

    Thank you for your feedback, Daniel, but this is probably a misunderstanding.
    I don’t want to show full posts instead of excerpts! I want to show the excerpts, but solve the problem that sometimes the “three points” are missing.

    I think, the problem would be solved if instead of 55 words the characters, for example 300 charakters, would be counted. But I do not know where and how I could change that.

    #17974
    Billie
    Participant

    I have found the solution for me with the WordPress plugin “advanced excerpt”.
    Perhaps it is also helpful for one or the other:

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-excerpt/

    Never mind.

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