Is there some easy fix for this that I’m overlooking? Doesn’t seem like it should be so difficult.

Thanks for writing in!

You can set it under Blog > Content in the customizer.

http://screencast.com/t/MZa3FdBaTv

Hope that helps.

Because this requires a template change, I’d advise that you setup a child theme. This allows you to make code changes that won’t be overwritten when an X update is released. After your child theme is setup, please review how we recommend making template changes in Customization Best Practices.

Then create file _content.php in wp-content\themes\x-child-renew\framework\views\global
then copy the code below into that file.

<?php

// =============================================================================
// VIEWS/GLOBAL/_CONTENT.PHP
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Display of the_excerpt() or the_content() for various entries.
// =============================================================================

$stack                     = x_get_stack();
$is_full_post_content_blog = (is_home() || is_archive()) && x_get_option( 'x_blog_enable_full_post_content', '' ) == '1';

?>

<?php

if ( is_singular() || $is_full_post_content_blog ) :
  x_get_view( 'global', '_content', 'the-content' );
  if ( $stack == 'renew' ) :
    x_get_view( 'renew', '_content', 'post-footer' );
  endif;
else :
  x_get_view( 'global', '_content', 'the-excerpt' );
endif;

?>

Hope that helps. 🙂

Also – if I do this, can I turn on pagination for this page. EG – it shows 4 posts per page and then paginates beyond that?

Thanks so much

Thanks for updating the thread! You can set the category archive page in your customizer, Appearance > Customize > Blog > Archives > Layout. The default number of post per page can be set in the settings, Settings > Reading Settings > Blog pages show at most.

To assist you with this issue, we’ll first need you to provide us with your URL. This is to ensure that we can provide you with a tailored answer to your situation. Once you have provided us with your URL, we will be happy to assist you with everything.

Thank you.

For example this is the site here: http://27.121.66.4/~abab6919/wordpress/
the main section is SERVICES – I am using MASONRY layout to display the archive pages for the various service categories- and have manually added code to add the EXCERPT below each featured image.. this all works fine .. BUT what about when we need to make just a specific category behave differently .. EG, I have a category TESTIMONIALS – and for this section it is just small tet entries, sometimes a pic., but no featured image required … so I want its category archive page to display all the posts at once, as full posts, ideally with a set number of posts at a time, say 6, and then pagination to activate.

I realise I can do this kind of thing with a plugin on a specific page and I am able to successfully do this (except for a pagination issue as described below) BUT since I have the “Select Category” category list widget on the sidebar – users are still going to be able to access this category through that method and it needs to look correct when they do this. .

SO – My optiomsm are:

1.
to manually make that category template page display differently to the standard MASONRY that I have set globally – please advise how to do this .. I realise I need to make the category-ID,php page- but not sure what code to use.

OR

2.
to remove “Testimonials” from the “Select Category” list widget- it is not possible to remove a category from this list in the WIDGET settings or the customiser – but is but is there another way through code to do this? – please advise how to do this.

(Because for future reference and other clients I need to know how to achieve both these solutions)

PLUGIN PAGINATION ISSUE – In terms of displaying all the posts of a certain category into page I realise that plugins can do this .. and I have been able to almost achieve a great result using the plugin ‘List Category Posts’ pls see example page here: http://27.121.66.4/~abab6919/wordpress/?page_id=7493
It is working except that X THEME seems to break the pagination at I am not sure why – but it is detecting the right umber of pagination page icons required – but when they are clicked on they don’t go anywhere .. I know that you are not able to do plugin support – but since the plugin does work except for the pagination I thought I would ask in case you had any ideas of a setting I can change to fix this..

Thanks so much, you support is amazing – I think most if not all of my future sites for clients will be built on X

#cat.postform option.level-0 {
display:none !important;
}

level-0 being the top level categories – so it only shows my categories in the list of they are subcategories – this is a workaround and useful to be abel to do .. BUT, I was trying to use CSS to control just one specific category in the list, and make that disappear and I tried to do it but using [value=”134″], IE:

#cat.postform option [value=”134″] {
display:none !important;
}

but it didn’t work, I was only able to control it usiing CLASS level-o … I suspect I SHOULD be abel to do this, but i was using [value=”134″] wrong .. can you please advise what I did wrong here?
Thx