New Blog Widget zero

Hi Alex

Thanks for getting in touch.

How we’ve traditionally handled a zero value in our theme settings and now in the widget is we’ve assumed it’s an error and defaulted to 55. I’ll chat with Alex here at SiteOrigin about your request. I’m sure we can add a filter for the time being to disable the excerpt. If a few more requests for this arise we can add a setting.

I’ve assigned your request here https://github.com/siteorigin/so-widgets-bundle/issues/1647. I’ll let you know as soon as we’ve made progress.

Hi Alex

Thanks for the update. Using the Code Snippets plugin, the following can be added:

function siteorigin_blog_widget_set_excerpt_length( $length ) {
    return 0;
}
add_filter( 'siteorigin_widgets_blog_excerpt_length', 'siteorigin_blog_widget_set_excerpt_length' );

You can name the snippet as you’d like and set it to run on the site front-end before saving and activating.

Hi Alex

After the next Widgets Bundle release, you’ll be able to enter 0 as the excerpt count without needing either of the above functions. Thanks for your feedback.

Cheers

Andrew