Choosing Hide Custom Excerpts on a post by post basis

[pentastich]

I would like to be able to choose whether or not to "hide custom excerpts" on a post by post basis. In other words, I want to be able to have some posts display the custom excerpt, and others hide it. Currently the flag is global, and appears to affect what {{text}} expands into.

I know at least one way to achieve this: I can enable the global "Hide custom excerpts on post pages" flag, add a custom page option "includeCustomExcerpt", and modify the post template to check the custom page option and explicitly include the {{excerpt}}. The following code in an overridden posts.hbs file worked for me:

            <div class="content__entry">
               {{#if @config.site.postUseTextWithoutCustomExcerpt}}
                  {{#if hasCustomExcerpt}}
                     {{#if @config.post.includeCustomExcerpt }}
                        <div>{{{ excerpt }}}</div>
                     {{/if}}
                  {{/if}}
               {{/if}}
               {{{text}}}
            </div>

I'm wondering whether there's a better way to go about this. I'd rather not reinvent the wheel!

[michaelfluegge]

Try #1505

[pentastich]

Thank you. That approach is similar to what I came up with, although the problem is rather different. I'm not unhappy with what I have, I'm just checking to see if someone has a different approach.

[michaelfluegge]

I simply put {{{text}}} in my post.hbs. In Publii, when writing a post, I use the 'read more' option to shorten the text visible on the homepage.

[pentastich]

I see. Our excerpts need to include the HTML markup, including buttons, so we have to use custom excerpts. We can't just truncate! For most of our pages the stuff before the "read more" line is all there is, but for some the custom excerpt is very different from what we want to show on the actual post. Does that makes sense?

[michaelfluegge]

Bob Mitro wrote in 2020:

{{#if hasCustomExcerpt}}{{{ excerpt }}}{{else}}{{{ excerpt }}}{{/if}}

https://forum.getpublii.com/topic/what-does-hascustomexcerpt-refer-to/