Reply To: Bio Info appearing after update

11/28/2016 at 12:18 pm #401624
Steven Zahm
Keymaster

@ Steven

Ok, I was able to replicate, finally. Here’s how to fix… but first, why.

The first release of Circled used a core WordPress function wp_trim_words() to create and display the excerpt. This is actually quite a “brute force” function. It basically ignores all HTML tags and strips text to an exact number of words not taking into account for punctuation and sentences.

The latest version of Circled uses a custom excerpt function in Connections which is much smarter, respecting HTML tags and sentences. An excerpt will only end at the end of a sentence ( a period, an exclamation or question mark ).

The bio of your entries actually very few sentences that end with punctuation which results in some bios to show in full and the others at what seemingly seems random lengths.

To fix…

  • Add punctuation, or
  • Add excerpt_length="p" to the existing shortcode. The problem with using this option many of your bios being with a ‘p’ tag which contains nothing but a non-breaking space, or
  • Create a custom override template file which uses the wp_trim_words() to create the excerpt if you like that result better. I can help with this, I would need a FTP login.

Hope this helps, let me know.