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Please add me to the list of users who’d like access to the latest version of Epik, which has been archived on StudioPress now.

I believe I originally found this snippet a couple of years ago from a tutorial at Studio Grasshopper, since I was always using manual excerpts and the StudioPress snippets were meant for automatic excerpts:

add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'manual_excerpt_more');
function manual_excerpt_more($excerpt) {
$excerpt_more = '';
if( has_excerpt() ) {
$excerpt_more = ' &nbsp; <a href="'.get_permalink().'" rel="nofollow">[Read more...]</a>';
}
return $excerpt . $excerpt_more;
}<!--formatted-->

I have this on several sites running Genesis 2.0 and various HTML5 child themes, and since I tend to use manual excerpts 99.9% of the time, I know it’s still working 🙂 Maybe it can help…

Isn’t it awesome when the solutions we need are far more simple than our brains had been building them up to be? 🙂

Glad to help!

More info: if you set the content limit, you can still have the Featured Image set, it’s not automatically stripped away as you stated in a previous thread.

You can test this for yourself like this:

Create three posts in a category, set a specific feature image in two of them, and insert a post image that’s of a smaller width than what’s defined for the chosen feature image for archives in the third one.

When you view that category listing, with either content limit or excerpts, that article without a defined featured image will display the post image you used as the featured image, and it won’t be as wide as the other images.

Not even the Featured Widget Amplified plugin gets around this behavior.

I’ve been running several magazine sites since 2005, and this Featured Image conundrum has been a problem since before Studio Press moved to Genesis. I got around it by training my magazine contributors to always use a Featured Image of a specific size, no matter what size post image they included. I still get uneven images now and then, but people forget instructions, so what can you do? 🙂

I’m better at tweaking PHP now than I was a few years ago, but with having to make sure sites won’t break with WP 3.6 and Genesis 2.0 updates, and figuring out what I can update now and what has to wait until later for both my sites and my client sites, I just didn’t have time to tackle and test out what would specifically work for this scenario now.

I was just happily surprised to finally run into someone else who thought this behavior was a problem!

Never mind. I think I have a different problem altogether.

the superfish code is working, but now my header right widget doesn’t appear where I put it… I think I have a spacing issue…

All of my customizations involved removing items rather than adding anything. Other than removing the mobile code, the only other thing I customized was to remove the arrows and putting the menu in the header widget and floating to the right. I think this latest round of complaints happened after updating to Genesis 1.9.2, and I know they are making changes with Genesis 2.0 that gets rid of superfish and a few other things, but I didn’t think they’d removed any of that already.

I’ve even compared the current code to what’s on the Adapt demo, and I haven’t seen anything radically different yet, but I’m going through the css again to make sure. I also wish I could reliably test the mobile device behavior for myself.

I added the fancy dropdowns & mobile responsive code back to a test site (copy of the original, but running WP 3.6 beta 3 and Genesis 2.0 beta), and it improved menu navigation on Android a little bit, but didn’t change anything with iOS behavior… the dropdown menus don’t stay “dropped down” long enough for anyone to tap an item; instead the iPhones just reload whatever that top menu item might be.

This has to be an Apple problem, because it works on my 1st Gen iPod Touch (iOS 3), and works on iPad, but not on iPhones running iOS 5 or iOS 6, for the clients.

Are you sure they work? The menus drop down, but you cannot click any of the items that appear. Doesn’t matter if the first item is an anchor or a link, you cannot select an item from the drop down to navigate to it; it automatically navigates to that first item, no matter what you try to tap on.

I have had people test this out with iOS 5 and 6 since Thursday night, and it behaves the same way on both, and also behaves this way on Android phones.

Could you try your phone on my client’s site? http://www.vueaudio.com

What’s weird is that the dropdowns work just fine on the iPad… this would indicate that there has to be a workaround, but no one has hit upon it yet. When this happened to their site back in Jan/Feb, it didn’t work on either iPhone or iPad.

Also, this behavior isn’t limited to Genesis child themes… other WordPress themes/frameworks are affected, including some of the default TwentyX themes, going by the people who are screaming about this on many various forums (including Apple’s Support Forums).

The big question is what are they changing, and why, and why does it break on standard website code.

A bit of additional info… this does not seem to be specific to Genesis, but I see a lot of other people asking questions about this in various forums (wordpress.org, primarily) about this iOS dropdown menu problem, and a few other non-WordPress platforms.

As a test, the folks who I customized Adapt for do not have problems with menu navigation on several other sites of mine running Genesis, those sites running customized Genesis child themes from StudioPress (Backcountry) and Themedy (Foxy News)… the dropdown menus on those three sites operated fine on their iPhones, but recently stopped working on Adapt (the same menus that don’t work with iOS 5.x and 6.x still work with iOS 3.x)

What’s worse is, they had this same problem crop up back in February or so, and I fixed it then (they have blank top level menus that I had to add a blank anchor as the URL to fix it), and now months later, the same problem crops up again, and no one has changed anything on the site in the interim other than adding more content (posts, custom posts, and pages).

I’m wondering if Apple changed anything yet again, and why they keep breaking this.

Any insight/help you could lend would be greatly appreciated, thank you!