Post Grid: Full Post

[piradyne]

Hi, how can I display a post grid, but have it display the full post. I could then use this to display a grid of items in my product store. I tried creating a new template. I took the content-grid.php and named it content-gridpost.php, added
<?php /*
Template Name: Full Posts in Grid
*/
at the top just to see if this works as normal, but I get a blank screen when the page is shown. I was planning to change the_excerpt() to the_content(), but I'm guessing there is more to it.

My question, what is the best way to display a full post in grid format?

Thanks

Jarrod

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[Jason Bobich]

Hello Jarrod,

In this case, you’re not working with a page template, so you don’t need to set it up like this. Simply take content-grid.php, copy this to your Child theme, and leave it named as-is.

Then, within this file, change the_excerpt() to the_content().

Here’s more information on the subject of template parts:

http://dev.themeblvd.com/tutorial/editable-content-files/

[piradyne]

Jason, wonderful, this worked out well. Thank you.

Jarrod

[piradyne]

Hmm…. poking around in the theme options and under contents in the post grid section, excerpts are turned off by default. If I turn them on, then the full content is displayed if there is no excerpt define, which is what I was wanting I guess. So bravo, this already does what I need without having to modify the template.

Now, is it possible to control this per post grid vs globally?

Thanks

Jarrod

[Jason Bobich]

If I turn them on, then the full content is displayed if there is no excerpt define

It actually is just displaying the first 55 words from your post with no shortcodes. That’s all WP does for the excerpt, when you don’t define one, but that’s not going to be the same as actually displaying the_content().

Now, is it possible to control this per post grid vs globally?

What you’d do is include a different template part. Checkout that article I linked you to above on template parts. When you filter the template part for “grid” you’d do it with some conditional.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

For example, say you made a file called content-grid-2.php and you wanted it to be used on the post grid of page 123 —

function my_template_parts( $parts ) {
    
    if( is_page( 123 ) ) {
    
		// non-paginated post grids
		$parts['grid'] = 'grid-2';
		
		// paginated post grids
		$parts['grid_paginated'] = 'grid-2';
     
    }
    
    return $parts;
}
add_filter( 'themeblvd_template_parts', 'my_template_parts' );

[piradyne]

Ahh yea, just discovered that it does not parse my shortcodes. Sigh. I added this in functions.php and it seem to work:

add_filter(‘the_excerpt’, ‘do_shortcode’);

Will this mess up my RSS feeds?

template parts…. ok thanks very much.

Jarrod

[Jason Bobich]

I’m honestly not quite sure of the effect on the RSS Feeds.

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