Loopers & Dynamic Content Formatting

[texaskiwi13]

Hi team,

A couple of formatting questions for some looper+ dynamic content sections I’m working on

1. on the “sermon series archive” layout, i’ve played with all sorts of different combinations of settings, but how i can get the featured image to not get cut off. It will always be a 16:9 ratio, or I could make it so that it’s always a 1:1 ratio.

2. I have custom field “message summary”. I know i can limit the number of characters the client can input, but is there a way that I can can truncate what they type like you would with the excerpt. Ie. can I do this, “{{dc:post:excerpt length=“40”}}” but with my custom field?

Thanks so much!
Ashley

[ruenel]

Hello Ashley,

Thanks for posting in!

1.) You can use the Contain as the Object Fit property of the image and then position it to Top Center.

It will leave a space below the image though.

You may also use Fill. This will stretch out the image to the featured image allocated area since you have set a minimum height.

2.) Regretfully, you cannot use {{dc:post:excerpt length="40"}} dynamic content in displaying your Message Summery Field. It has to be {{dc:post:meta field="message_summary"}} or {{dc:acf:post_field field="message_summary"}}.

Best Regards.

Best Regards.

[texaskiwi13]

Hi Rue,

Thanks for that, but I’m not sure it really answered my questions. Please let me rephrase:

1. is there any settings I can apply to get it to respect the aspect ratio of the image so that nothing is cut off and nothing is stretched?

2. Is there a setting I can apply to either {{dc:post:meta field="message_summary"}} or {{dc:acf:post_field field="message_summary"}} that will limit the number of characters output on the front end, regardless of what the client inputs from the dashboard?

Thanks!

[tristup]

Hi Ashley,

Unfortunately, there is no such option for the image to apply the exact Aspect ratio as you are expecting. Also, there is no option to limit the characters output for the Dynamic Content you are using.

Thanks