Change Excerpts to Show HTML

[fortunemanagement]

Hi, the excerpts showing on the events list page looks kind of junky and I’m hoping we can set it to show html and if not, at least have the option to set it to show full content and the respond to the more tag. I didn’t see a setting, but maybe I’m overlooking something.

Also, I tried Advanced Excerpt Plugin with no luck.

thanks!
-ryan

[Barry]

Hi Ryan,

WordPress will strip HTML from the event description in order to form the excerpt, unless you hand-craft an excerpt for each event (or at least do so for those events where you need HTML formatting) – just as is the case with regular post excerpts. So that’s one option that’s open to you.

If, alternatively, you want to display the full description then please familiarize yourself with the Themer’s Guide first of all. Basically though you would override the list/single-event.php template and replace:

<?php the_excerpt() ?>

With:

<?php the_content() ?>

Does that help at all?

[Barry]

This thread’s not seen much activity for the last couple of weeks so I’ll go ahead and close it. Of course if you still need help with this or any other issue please don’t hesitate to create a new thread (or threads) and one of the team will be only too happy to help. Thanks!

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