Event Description being cut

[Jason]

The excerpts on the event list are cut off after 7 lines and formatting is removed. It wasn’t functioning like this when I first set up the website. Please help. Thank you!

[Josh]

Hey Jason,

Thanks for reaching out to us!

You can update the excerpt length by using the “excerpt_length” filter. Something like:

add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 70 );

should help to increase the length there. Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[Jason]

But what if I don’t want it trimmed at all. And why is it removing all formatting now? I’d like to preserve styles and formatting from the post. As it was before.

[Josh]

Hey Jason,

With some recent updates, we modified the way we generated the excerpts to give a little more control and consistency when they were used.

Formatting shouldn’t be getting removed here. Does the formatting stay removed if you switch to a default WordPress theme? Also, if you would like the full content to be displayed, you can use a larger limit that would cover larger text there.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[Jason]

Yes the formatting stays removed if I switch to a default WordPress theme. Cannot figure this out.

[Josh]

Hey Jason,

We do have an adjustment coming that does allow for more html included in the excerpt function that is being used there. This should be released with our 4.0.6 maintenance release that will be released, barring an unforeseen issues in the QA process, sometime next week.

Thanks!

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