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Hi,
My developer is currently away on holidays but i’m filling in for him however my knowledge is a bit more of a beginner level when it comes to web design and wordpress.
Background: We were previously using another theme but once we needed to add BuddyPress to our site we decided to transfer the site to Kleo. I’m currently working on transitioning the content to our DEV site. We have imported the existing site content to Kleo however i’m having trouble figuring out which elements i can use in Kleo to recreate the contents of our previous site in a similar manner.
Firstly, if I install demo data to our site, would this replace the content on say our existing homepage, for example? Or would the demo homepage simply be a new generic page which i could look at to examine how it was structured?
Secondly a couple of features i’m looking to create:
1. I’m looking for is how to create the ‘related articles/products’ shown on demo pages.
2. I’m also looking for a generic ‘category/tag’ feature I could use for filtering content. For example having a page for mobile phone apps organised by platform with tabs for various subcategories, eg productivity. This content wouldn’t be blog posts per se, but rather a short paragraph with an image accompanying each and in the back end I could simply assign a tag/category/benefit and it would appear when I used that corresponding shortcode anywhere on the site. I previously used a feature called ‘benefits’ in another theme but have thus far not been able to find something simila other than for posts (which we already use for RSS feeds).I’ve read through the documentation page but there wasn’t a lot of information about using specific elements to create certain looks. Maybe this is assumed knowledge? Maybe I’ve overlooked a really simple option? But I’m more of a beginner so some help will be much appreciated J
Please let me know if you need more information.
Demo pages are just new sample pages. Your home page will be whatever you have set in WP Admin > Settings > Reading.
On a post page, you can show related posts by enabling it in Theme Options > Blog: Enable related posts. Related products show up on product pages by default.
If “benefits” was a plugin, you can probably still use that. There’s no post filtering by category within Kleo, but you can achieve something similar by using a combination of the Tabs shortcode and the Kleo posts shortcode. Create a tab for each of your categories. Within each tab, use the Kleo posts shortcode and filter by the specific category.
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Hi Sharmstr,
So to confirm, I won’t lose any of my existing content by uploading demo data? It will all be side by side on my pages list? Sorry i know I’m being pedantic, I’m just trying to be super cautious to avoid any major setbacks…
And to be more specific, I’m looking to show related pages – not posts or products. Is there an element I can use to manually re-create the related posts/products display but for pages, or have it displayed automatically?
‘Benefits’ was an element provided by our previous theme developers and isn’t available as an external plugin from what I can see. If I use Kleo posts, is there a setting where I can remove the ‘Continue reading’ from the excerpt which appears in the tab, or can this only be done via CSS?
Thanks for your assistance!
You wont lose anything. You will be adding pages, posts, etc….
You can use the kleo post carousel to add something similar to related posts by filtering it by page and categories/tags.
Turn off the post footer in the kleo posts settings.
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Ok thanks for clarifying. I’ll look into the carousel as an option.
Re: the continue reading, when I turn off the post footer in the settings the continue reading button disappears, however the post is still clipped after that same amount of characters as if the button were still there. Is there an option to extend the excerpt to display the full text of the post, without being shortened with … ?
You can change the excerpt length: https://archived.seventhqueen.com/forums/topic/how-to-increase-the-amount-of-excerpt-showing
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Great thanks, i didn’t see that post when i previously did a search.
I’ll try all your recommendations and reply to confirm resolutions or ask further questions as needed.
Thanks for your help.
Hi Sharmstr,
So for the Kleo posts i’m sure we’ll be able to extend the length of the excerpt to enable the full text to be displayed from the link you supplied, however any links contained in the text in the post aren’t appearing in the excerpt. How can you add links to the excerpt?
Also how can you disable the permalinks for the headings of these posts? They won’t be necessary as all the content will (hopefully!) be located on the same page.
Hmmm. In the link I gave you before regarding the excerpt, you can try removing the strip_tags() function around get_the_excerpt.
You cant remove the heading hyperlinks without custom code. Perhaps instead of using the Kleo Posts shortcode, you should take a look at one of the Visual Composer post grid elements. You can use their grid builder to custom design those. https://wpbakery.atlassian.net/wiki/display/VC/Grid+Builder
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