uses notes and not ecerpt

@ dominic

This can be done but you’ll have to modify the template. In the card.php file you’ll find this line:

echo strip_shortcodes( $entry->getExcerpt() );

Change it to this:

echo strip_shortcodes( $entry->getExcerpt( array(), $entry->getNotes() ) );

That make the excerpt from the notes fields.

Then you need to enable the notes field via a shortcode option enabled by Excerpt Plus like so:

[connections enable_note='true']

Hope that helps!

@ dominic

You could dupe the card. Another option which may or may not be more difficult, depending on your PHP skills, is to add a new shortcode option to Except Plus to let you define whether it should use the bio or note for the excerpt.

You would have to register the new option in the excerpt-plus.php file adding $permittedAtts['excerpt_text'] = 'bio'; in the initShortcodeAtts function. Then in the card.php file you could create an if statement something like:

if ( $atts['excerpt_text'] == 'bio' ) {
  echo strip_shortcodes( $entry->getExcerpt() );
} else {
  echo strip_shortcodes( $entry->getExcerpt( array(), $entry->getNotes() ) );
}

Then on the page where you want to use the notes you could use the shortcode:
[connections excerpt_text='notes']

Now the template should use the notes instead. The notes in the shortcode could be any word you want because it does not matter since the if statement is only looking for bio so if anything other than bio is used with excerpt_text the notes will be used for the excerpt.

Be forewarned, make this change will not be update safe since there is not a way to “override” the excerpt-plus-php file like the other files.

Hope this makes sense.

@ dominic

Great to hear and thanks!