Slider excerpt problem with Sparkling, Jetpack and PowerPress

Sparkling
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I’m working on a site using a child theme of Sparkling in combination with the PowerPress plugin for podcasts (http://loremenpodcast.com/). The PowerPress plugin injects a podcast player at the top of certain posts. When excerpts of those posts are featured in the slider, the player is stripped out so it looks like this:

However, as soon as I enable Jetpack, the slider starts to include the player in a very unattractive way:

This happens even if it Jetpack is not connected to Wordpress and/or all the features are disabled. Somehow, Jetpack is interfering with the way the theme selects the excerpts. Can you suggest a way around this problem?

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Hi @alibk,

I hope you are well today and thank you for your question.

Please try disabling Jetpack modules one by one to see which module is conflicting if any.

Best Regards,
Movin

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Hi Movin! Thanks for the suggestion, but this problem occurs even if all of the Jetpack modules are disabled.

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Then for the slider posts please enter the content that you want to display on the slider in the excerpt field of those posts as described on this page http://www.wpbeginner.com/glossary/excerpt/

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That’s a very handy workaround. Thank you.

But I would still like to get to the bottom of what causes the issue, if anyone has insight into that? Using the excerpts is a little risky, because it would be easy for an Author to forget to include an excerpt and leave the site looking nasty.

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The Jetpack plugin is changing the functionality of the_excerpt function so we can’t do anything in it. You have to contact Jetpack plugin support regarding this.

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Thanks, that’s a great starting point.

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You are most welcome here :slight_smile:

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Just in case anyone finds themselves having the same problem. I found a solution from the PowerPress side:

From the Website section of PowerPress settings, scroll down to “Having Issues?” and select “Yes, alternate fix”.

Thanks again!

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Thanks for sharing the solution in this forum.

Your help here is really appreciated.