{"id":1069882,"date":"2016-02-08T17:43:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T01:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/customizing-description-in-list-widget\/"},"modified":"2016-02-24T08:35:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T16:35:03","slug":"customizing-description-in-list-widget","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/customizing-description-in-list-widget\/","title":{"rendered":"Customizing description in list widget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Advanced List Widget is very nice! Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>There are two things I would like to be able to do, though, that so far don&#8217;t seem possible:<br \/>\n1. Allow more content before it gets truncated.<br \/>\n2. Use a &#8220;Read More &#8230;&#8221; link to the event when it is truncated. Right now all I get is [&#8230;] with no link. <\/p>\n<p>Posts on this site do have &#8220;Read More&#8221; link, but the events do not. <\/p>\n<p>Both would be possible with a shortcode, but I haven&#8217;t found anything that works with the Advanced List Widget.<\/p>\n<p>Do I need to switch to a shortcode to make this work?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using a non-responsive theme (StudioPress Education) on the Genesis Framework.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1069882","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Customizing description in list widget -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/customizing-description-in-list-widget\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Customizing description in list widget -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Advanced List Widget is very nice! 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