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[nathansjcorp]

Hi, the recent post is showing the excerpt current length (100)on my english page but my code is not working on the chinese pages.

http://chenhsong.com/customer_success_stories/?lang=zh-hans
http://chenhsong.com/customer_success_stories

If i add some english to a chinese post then it works fine. I can only assume that the {‘<span class=”x-recent-posts-excerpt”>’ . strip_tags(excerpt(100)) . ‘</span>’} is not working for chinese characters.

[nathansjcorp]

This is my code:

[nathansjcorp]

// =============================================================================
// Custom Excerpt Length – Call: echo excerpt($length);
// =============================================================================

function excerpt($limit) {
$excerpt = explode(‘ ‘, get_the_excerpt(), $limit);
if (count($excerpt)>=$limit) {
array_pop($excerpt);
$excerpt = implode(” “,$excerpt).’.’;
} else {
$excerpt = implode(” “,$excerpt);
}
// $excerpt = preg_replace(‘\[[^\]]*\]‘,”,$excerpt);
return $excerpt;
}

// =============================================================================
// Add Excerpt to Recent Posts -> [x_recent_posts]
// =============================================================================

function x_shortcode_recent_posts_excerpt( $atts ) {
extract( shortcode_atts( array(
‘id’ => ”,
‘class’ => ”,
‘style’ => ”,
‘type’ => ‘post’,
‘count’ => ”,
‘category’ => ”,
‘offset’ => ”,
‘orientation’ => ”,
‘no_image’ => ”,
‘fade’ => ”
), $atts, ‘x_recent_posts’ ) );

$allowed_post_types = apply_filters( ‘cs_recent_posts_post_types’, array( ‘post’ => ‘post’ ) );
$type = ( isset( $allowed_post_types[$type] ) ) ? $allowed_post_types[$type] : ‘post’;

$id = ( $id != ” ) ? ‘id=”‘ . esc_attr( $id ) . ‘”‘ : ”;
$class = ( $class != ” ) ? ‘x-recent-posts cf ‘ . esc_attr( $class ) : ‘x-recent-posts cf’;
$style = ( $style != ” ) ? ‘style=”‘ . $style . ‘”‘ : ”;
$count = ( $count != ” ) ? $count : 3;
$category = ( $category != ” ) ? $category : ”;
$category_type = ( $type == ‘post’ ) ? ‘category_name’ : ‘portfolio-category’;
$offset = ( $offset != ” ) ? $offset : 0;
$orientation = ( $orientation != ” ) ? ‘ ‘ . $orientation : ‘ horizontal’;
$no_image = ( $no_image == ‘true’ ) ? $no_image : ”;
$fade = ( $fade == ‘true’ ) ? $fade : ‘false’;

$js_params = array(
‘fade’ => ( $fade == ‘true’ )
);

$data = cs_generate_data_attributes( ‘recent_posts’, $js_params );

$output = “<div {$id} class=\”{$class}{$orientation}\” {$style} {$data} data-fade=\”{$fade}\” >”;

$q = new WP_Query( array(
‘orderby’ => ‘date’,
‘post_type’ => “{$type}”,
‘posts_per_page’ => “{$count}”,
‘offset’ => “{$offset}”,
“{$category_type}” => “{$category}”,
‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => true
) );

if ( $q->have_posts() ) : while ( $q->have_posts() ) : $q->the_post();

if ( $no_image == ‘true’ ) {
$image_output = ”;
$image_output_class = ‘no-image’;
} else {
$image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id(), ‘entry-cropped’ );
$bg_image = ( $image[0] != ” ) ? ‘ style=”background-image: url(‘ . $image[0] . ‘);”‘ : ”;
$image_output = ‘<div class=”x-recent-posts-img”‘ . $bg_image . ‘></div>’;
$image_output_class = ‘with-image’;
}

$output .= ‘‘
. ‘<article id=”post-‘ . get_the_ID() . ‘” class=”‘ . implode( ‘ ‘, get_post_class() ) . ‘”>’
. ‘<div class=”entry-wrap”>’
. $image_output
. ‘<div class=”x-recent-posts-content”>’
. ‘<h3 class=”h-recent-posts”>’ . get_the_title() . ‘</h3>’
. ‘<span class=”x-recent-posts-date”>’ . get_the_date() . ‘</span>’
. do_shortcode(‘[x_gap size=”10px”]’)
. ‘<span class=”x-recent-posts-excerpt”>’ . strip_tags(excerpt(100)) . ‘</span>’
. ‘</div>’
. ‘</div>’
. ‘</article>’
. ‘‘;

endwhile; endif; wp_reset_postdata();

$output .= ‘</div>’;

return $output;
}

add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘update_x_recent_posts_to_v2’);

function update_x_recent_posts_to_v2() {
remove_shortcode( ‘x_recent_posts’ );
add_shortcode( ‘x_recent_posts’, ‘x_shortcode_recent_posts_excerpt’ );
}

[nathansjcorp]

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[Rue Nel]

Hello There,

Thanks for writing in and the very detailed information. Please make sure that both of the English posts and the Chinese post has a an excerpt. Did you created the posts in Cornerstone? If that is the case, this is why you are not seeing any excerpt because shortcodes and Cornerstone formatting codes will be strip off in the excerpt. Excerpts are optional hand-crafted summaries of your content that can be used in your theme. Learn more about manual excerpts here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Excerpt.

To display the excerpt properly, you have to use the manual excerpts. To add an excerpt to a post, simply write one in the Excerpt field under the post edit box. Please see the screenshot below: http://prntscr.com/9j98do

Hope this helps.

[nathansjcorp]

Hi, no that does not help.

I added my code so that i don’t need to use the “manual excerpt”

This works fine in English where it picks up the first 100 characters of my content.
If you look at the post”high-end-medical-equipment-part-molding” in the back end you can clearly see that there is no “manual excerpt”

[Christian]

Yes, there is no excerpt. You need to manually write it in the Excerpt box (see attachment)

Thanks.

[nathansjcorp]

I’m sorry, but if you look at the links i sent:
http://chenhsong.com/customer_success_stories/?lang=zh-hans
http://chenhsong.com/customer_success_stories

you will see that there is some text under the title of each “recent post”.
right??
Now i’m calling that text “excerpt” but you can also call it “beginning of content text” or whatever.
and as far as i know the code that i put in “functions php” allows that “beginning of content text/ excerpt” to be displayed through the “recent post shortcode”

Now the problem is that it is not working correctly for chinese characters as made obvious on this page:
http://chenhsong.com/customer_success_stories/?lang=zh-hans

Please don’t tell me about “manual excerpt” as i do not intent to use it, i am hoping for (“automatic excerpt/ automatic display of the first few lines of text”)in my post” which has been working just fine for the last month in English but has a problem in chinese.

thanks.

[Christian]

I see. Regretfully this isn’t a feature offered by X. It could be possible with custom development, but this would be outside the scope of support we can offer. You might want to contact our trusted partners who caters X setup and customization needs. Please see https://community.theme.co/custom-development/. Thanks for understanding. Take care!

[nathansjcorp]

Ok no worries!

Here is a similar problem that should fall under your scope of support:

Under Appearance>customize> blog > content> the excerpt length is not working for chinese.

http://chenhsong.com/11.3bk/category/customer-success-stories-ch/?lang=zh-hans

http://chenhsong.com/11.3bk/category/case-studies/customer-success-stories/

my excerpt length is set to 10

I assume you should fix this as this is a function within your customizer?
Unless Xtheme does not support asian fonts?

Please go ahead, and turn content off and on, change length ,edit the post in question, etc… this is a backup version.so you can do what you want with it.

[nathansjcorp]

If you can’t fix it could you please offer me a hack/ quick fix?

[Paul R]

Hi,

You can add manual excerpts to your posts.

Please see screenshot – http://screencast.com/t/ya8A0ZBmclN

Hope that helps.

[Author]

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