Guys,

I’m using a minimally-tweaked child theme for BP 1.2.1 and I’d like to have the main blog page show excerpts instead of whole posts.

That way, I could more easily feature 10 posts or so without the reader having to scroll down so much or flip through pages.

What’s the easiest way to do this?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 15 years, 8 months ago]

Child theme.

It’s my favorite new two words.

Copy /bp-themes/bp-default/index.php over to your child theme.

Edit the_content() to the_excerpt().

[@pcwriter Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

@r-a-y

I’ve been trying to add a call for the excerpt for each “Latest Post” in blogs-loop.php (“Blogs” subtab in member profile) but, as I’m a php noob, I wind up with excerpts from ALL posts. (At least I got something. )

Would you happen to know how I can get just the excerpt for each corresponding Latest Post to show?

Any help is appreciated!

[@nahummadrid Participant 15 years, 2 months ago]

was there an update here…was just trying this with something like this – but no luck

bp_get_blog_latest_post_excerpt() {
global $blogs_template;

if ( null == $blogs_template->blog->latest_post )
return false;

return apply_filters( ‘bp_get_blog_latest_post_excerpt’, sprintf( __( ”, ‘buddypress’ ), ” . apply_filters( ‘the_excerpt’, $blogs_template->blog->latest_post->post_excerpt ) . ” ) );