height of blogitems

youngvisual

Is there a way to give a fixed height to the blog items overview. Now they are given a specific height according to the text and title of the blogpost. If we can give them a fixed height they will align nice and pretty.
Now there's a big contrast with the aligned layout of the portfolio items. I really think it would give some more unity to the template.

An mock-up attachment to better understand my needs.

Thanks in advance!

Air

Hi

Check this page to see what we wished to achieve with blog posts http://masonry.desandro.com/

If you don't like it you can mess with CSS, style-light.css line ~469
add this rule, or edit existing

.elastic .item{
height: 300px;
overflow: hidden;
}

youngvisual

Hi,

thanks for this. Exactly my point! I was able to get it working so thumbs up.
Now there is a small issue concerning the categories that are normally under the post. See images or website.

Is there a way to specify how much characters the blogpost preview text on the frontpage is shown and end it with (...) if the blogpost text is to long.

I provided 2 images. one of the current situation with some remarks. And the other one how i should be. I understand that it's not easy to perfectly align the category every time (due to length of titel, post, categorie,...), but I hope you can provide me an answer or direction.

http://www.pilipili.be/2011/

Thanks in advance

youngvisual

Quick update. I was able to fix this problem on the blog page (that displays al the blog items) by using the "read more" attribute in wordpress. But on the homepage I still have the samen issue.

Homepage: http://www.pilipili.be/2011/
Blogpage : http://www.pilipili.be/2011/blog/

Air

It looks like you solved it :-)

youngvisual

No, actually for the blogpage it is fixed when I use this workaround
But not for the home page that shows a few blogitems.

Any idea?

Air

Wow, it was mind binder:-)
It is pure BUG in our theme :-)
You have three options:
1. Use attached(updated file)
2. Read about manual excerpts http://op111.net/67/
3. Change excerpt length in airlock/apollo13.php, search for:

	function excerpt_length( $length ) {
		return 40;
	}

and change 40 to desired number of words in excerpt(comment above this function is wrong btw;-) )

With regards.