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Thank you for sending me to this tutorial, unfortunatley it is not working for me. I added the code to my functions.php file, but my category is still showing all posts in excerpt format, no full content. This is the category:
Thanks for referring me to that post! Very insightful. I had created all of my category pages using the Genesis page template. I thought that was the better option. But, I’ve actually had a lot of problems related to my category pages and now understand why! THANKS!
The full post now works! The only problem I’m having now is that the full post is showing the thumbnail image that is meant to be there with the excerpt, and not in the full post.
Any suggestions? Thanks for letting me pick you brain!
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Thank you for sending me to this tutorial, unfortunatley it is not working for me. I added the code to my functions.php file, but my category is still showing all posts in excerpt format, no full content. This is the category:
http://dreamyambitions.com/how-to-start-a-blog/
Thanks,
Kristie
The above is a static Page on which Blog Template is being applied, it’s not a category page. Isn’t it?
Here’s what you might want to do:
1) Edit that Page and set it to not use the Blog Template
2) Go to Settings > Reading and set that Page as the Posts page. As to why these two steps are being recommended, see http://www.billerickson.net/dont-use-genesis-blog-template/
3) In the above code change
if( is_category() ) {
to
if( is_home() ) {
Thanks for referring me to that post! Very insightful. I had created all of my category pages using the Genesis page template. I thought that was the better option. But, I’ve actually had a lot of problems related to my category pages and now understand why! THANKS!
The full post now works! The only problem I’m having now is that the full post is showing the thumbnail image that is meant to be there with the excerpt, and not in the full post.
Any suggestions? Thanks for letting me pick you brain!
What is the URL of webpage where the problem can be seen?
I forgot to click the notify me button! I’ll click it this time, here is a URL,
http://dreamyambitions.com/category/blogging-tips/
thanks again for your help!
I know it’s been forever. But, here is the correct link. Still haven’t figured it out yet,
http://blogambitions.com/category/wordpress-tutorials/
Sridhar, thanks for another great tutorial–came in very handy for me today!
[…] finally set me on the path of enlightenment was a fairly simple tutorial from the excellent Sridhar Katakam. If you build Genesis websites and don’t subscribe to his blog yet, please pause and correct […]