[Resolved] Some suggestions (you might already have solutions for?)

Well after all that I solved my responsive columns by setting the WP Show posts columns to 2 and adding:

@media only screen and (min-width: 800px) { .masonry-brick {
width: 33.3%;
}
}

I’m still really struggling to figure out a way to have different excerpts on WP Show Posts and the blog page though.

Hi Tom, thanks 🙂

I’ve tried that but the custom excerpt length doesn’t work when a manual excerpt has been set on the post page as far as I can tell? It just uses the manual excerpt.

Even then, it would leave the WP Show Posts excerpt at a word length that will leave the excerpt ending at mid sentence most of the time, and that I have no control over unless I edit the content of the post to suit the excerpt. Would it be possible to have a WP Show Posts excerpt option box on each post page, that defined a specific custom excerpt for displaying with WP Show Posts?

To my great surprise, this worked! (I have no idea if this is good code or not, but seems to be working as I want!)

function wpsp_excerpt( )
{
	global $post;
	
	$content = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), $key = 'wpsp_excerpt', $single = true );
	
	echo $content;
}

I had to edit the functions.php file though, as it kept returning fatal error cannot redefine function when I added it to Code Snippets. Is there another way around this so that I can add the fix in Code Snippets instead of editing plugin files?

Thanks Tom that works perfectly.

This is the code I ended up with for anyone with the same problem. Add as a code snippet and set a custom field on your post page with the name ‘wpsp_excerpt’ and the value as your custom excerpt and it will display for WP Show Posts. If nothing is set it will default to the excerpt length you have set.

if ( ! function_exists( 'wpsp_excerpt' ) ) {
	function wpsp_excerpt( $excerpt_length )
	{
		global $post;

		if ( get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), $key = 'wpsp_excerpt', $single = true ) ) {

	        $content = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), $key = 'wpsp_excerpt', $single = true );

	    } else {

	        $content = wp_trim_words( get_the_content(), $excerpt_length, apply_filters( 'wpsp_ellipses', '...' ) );

	    }
			
			// Strip shortcodes from our content
		$content = strip_shortcodes( $content );
		
		// Strip URLs from our excerpt (oembeds etc..)
		$content = preg_replace( '~http(s)?://[^\s]*~i', '', $content );
		
		// Return our content
		echo $content;
	}
}