Single blog post customisations

Hi there,

You can add the 1st paragraph into the custom except field, and use a headline block to pull the excerpt in the page hero.

If you do not want to manually remove the 1st paragraph from the post content, you can use CSS to hide it on the front end.

Additionally, I’d like to know if it’s possible to set the padding-top to 0px on the single blog post page content.

Try this CSS:

.one-container.single-post .site-content {
    padding-top: 0;
}

I’m not an expert on SEO, you might want to do some research for this, sorry.

For the excerpt length issue, you can use this PHP code to trim it, change 20 to the word count you want.

add_filter( 'wp_trim_excerpt', 'yh_trim_custom_excerpt' );

function yh_trim_custom_excerpt( $excerpt ) {
    $output = $excerpt;

    // Limit word count to 20
    $words_limit = 20;
	
    $excerpt_words = preg_split('/[\s]+/', $excerpt, $words_limit + 1);
    if (count($excerpt_words) > $words_limit) {
        array_pop($excerpt_words);
        $excerpt = implode(' ', $excerpt_words);
    }

    if ( has_excerpt() ) {
        $output = sprintf( '%1$s...',
            $excerpt,
            get_permalink(),
            __( 'Read more', 'generatepress' )
        );
    }

    return $output;
}

However, if you don’t want to use custom excerpt, you can also add the 1st paragraph to a custom field, and use the GB headline block to pull post meta > your_custom_field_slug.

Yes 🙂

No problem 🙂