Task Fifteen: Investigating Excerpts
Now click on Blog in the menu. This will take you to the listing of posts.
Scroll through the posts.
You will notice here that right after each post’s feature image, there is a paragraph of text. For the first post, that text will be the following:
The Vexter Fuzz Factory is a five-knob fuzz using two new old-stock sixties germanium transistors. It’s one of the most versatile Fuzz pedals on the market. Its circuit is not modeled after any classic fuzz design.
Click on the title or feature image of the most recent post: it will be at the top of the output of posts.
This will take you full (or “single”) view of the post. Here, you will notice that the paragraph you saw on the blog page is not visible.
That text came from the Excerpt field. An except is a summary of that you write. Not all themes will output summaries, but lots do. Excerpts typically make for a more pleasant reading experience than any of the following:
- full content of all the post in the blog, home, page, or category archives.
- more buttons after the first paragraph
- summaries generated automatically by WordPress (by default the first 55 words in the post)
Click the Edit Post button at the top of the page (as long as you are logged in, of course).
Now figure out how to change the excerpt for the first post in the blog listing to
My name is [ your name ] and I created this excerpt. Excerpts are hand-crafted summaries of post contents. They typically work better than automatically-generated summaries.
Test that the excerpt is working, by clicking the blog link in the menu.
Task Sixteen: Final CSS Tweaks
For the final css tweaks, click on Politics to go to the archive of all the posts from the politics category.
In the top part of the politics archive, change the color of the word politics to hotpink.
Change the corresponding category names to the following colors:
| Archive | Category Text Color |
|---|---|
| Politics | hotpink |
| Sports | orange |
| Culture | yellow |
| Food | cornflowerblue |
| Movies | peru |