Blog Posts – Struggling with Excerpt Word Lengths

[Steve]

Steve

November 6, 2017 at 1:40 pm

Hi Ben and Team.

I’m struggling a little with word counts on blog posts/shortcode functions and some help would be great. As I understand things I can set an excerpt length in Blog Options. That’s all fine.

Then on a sidebar I also want some post excerpts, but not with as many words as the default setting above.

Looking at the shortcodes it seems I need to use the “blog_posts” shortcode like this: [blog_posts orderby=date items=4 word_count=30 cat=photos] as the “kad_blog” option does allow for a word count parameter.

That’s fine, but “blog_posts” seems to layout in two columns and I only want one. I could hack this in CSS by setting col-md-6 to 50% etc… but that seems a bit messy.

Is there a better option for doing this? (I’m looking for the word_count parameter in “kad_blog” or a columns option in “blog_posts” I guess).

I did a search and this has been asked before, and the response seemed to suggest that there was a one column blog option somewhere in the theme settings but I’m not sure if I interpreted what was being written correctly.

Kind regards
Steve