[blairwarren]

It looks like the blog masonry template pulls from the content field and not the excerpt field, so the only way to control the length of the excerpt it shows is with a more tag.

Is there any way to make it pull from the excerpt field rather than have to use more tags?

I didn’t see a setting for this and I poked around the template files a bit. So if I missed something obvious, I apologize.

[Mehmet S.]

– Go to Appearance > Editor > format-standard.php

– Find the line below:

the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>', 'read' ) );

– Change it like this:

the_excerpt();

– Do this changes to other post format files if you are using them:

format-aside.php
format-audio.php
format-chat.php
format-gallery.php
format-image.php
format-link.php
format-quote.php
format-status.php
format-video.php

[blairwarren]

That worked. Thanks!

[Will Franco aka Flywheel]

When the theme is updated, this change might be lost. Just an FYI. I believe you can create a custom file, and make the changes there. This way, when you update the theme, your alternations will remain.

[Mehmet S.]

All theme modification should be done by using child themes not editing the theme files directly.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

[Mehmet S.]

Hi all,

Excerpt option added. New version is available on ThemeForest.

– Check the option Theme Options > Blog > Excerpt.