a trick for getting category.php to use the_content instead of the

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a trick for getting category.php to use the_content instead of the_excerpt?

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Started 12 years ago by snack
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snack
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I've used other themes that do this by default. I thought I could change my Reading Settings to display "full text", but it's already set to do that.

And unfortunately, I can't just modify category.php, because it doesn't actually contain the_exceprt() -- instead it calls thematic_categoryloop() , which is in
thematic/library/extensions/content-extensions.php .

This function offers an override -- childtheme_override_category_loop() -- but that doesn't seem the right solution to my problem. I don't want to kill the loop, just tweak it's behavior.

There's got to be something simple for this, right?

Posted 12 years ago #

joperron
Member

Hi, I use this one all the time, found here on the forums, put this in your functions.php

function remove_categoryloop() {
    remove_action('thematic_categoryloop', 'thematic_category_loop');
}
add_action('init', 'remove_categoryloop');

function my_categoryloop() {
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

          <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="<?php thematic_post_class(); ?>">
              <?php thematic_postheader(); ?>
              <div class="entry-content">
<?php thematic_content(); ?>
				</div>
              <?php thematic_postfooter(); ?>
          </div><!-- .post -->

      <?php endwhile;
}
add_action('thematic_categoryloop', 'my_categoryloop');

Posted 12 years ago #

snack
Member
Thanks joperron. That's basically what I did. I just feel like I'm reinventing the wheel. I expected that I'd just be able to pass basic values to thematic core functions, ie roughly this
```
thematic_categoryloop('cat-name', 'display-style' );
```
Instead, every time I want to customize it, I have to remove the function from the thematic codebase and bring it into my functions.php. I find myself doing this repeatedly, because the actual function is too far away for me to pass values to. Perhaps if I was a better coder this wouldn't be a problem. As it is, I end up with a huge and not-too-elegant-looking functions file.
Posted 12 years ago #

helgatheviking
Moderator

i believe you need to filter the thematic_content(). try:

//change where theme uses excerpts vs full
function childtheme_content($content) {
	//full content on category
	if (is_category()) {
		$content= 'full';
	}
	return $content;
}

add_filter('thematic_content', 'childtheme_content');

Posted 12 years ago #

snack
Member

will this work in a page with multiple loops?

Posted 12 years ago #
helgatheviking
Moderator

i dont actually know. why don't you try it and report back and we'll go from there.

Posted 12 years ago #

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