Question/Bug? - Setting post excerpt

[Shu-Wan]

• This is a question about using the theme.
• I have updated all gems with bundle update.
• I believe this to be a bug with the theme --- not Jekyll, GitHub Pages or one of the bundled plugins.
• I have tested locally with bundle exec jekyll build.

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Environment informations

• **Minimal Mistakes version:4.1.0
• **github-pages or jekyll gem version:3.3.1
• **Operating system: macOS Sierra 10.12.2

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Expected behavior

I wanted to set my own excerpt for posts instead an auto-generated one. Therefore, I added an excerpt value into my YAML front matter, but it doesn't work. The pages still use auto-generated one instead I added.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

I checked out the layout file, and find out excerpt is referenced in the includes/archive_single.html by the following code.

{% if post.excerpt %}<p class="archive__item-excerpt" itemprop="description">{{ post.excerpt | markdownify | strip_html | truncate: 160 }}</p>{% endif %}

I notice itemdrop='description' and post.excerpt are sourcing different content from the post. Therefore, I tried to change either of them to make them both source from description or excerpt. Then I can have my own excerpt rather than an auto-generated one.

For example

{% if post.excerpt %}<p class="archive__item-excerpt" itemprop="description">{{ post.description | markdownify | strip_html | truncate: 160 }}</p>{% endif %}

Is it an inconsistency bug or I understand it incorrectly? All files are in my GitHub repo.

Thanks for the help!

[mmistakes]

Strange. It appears to be working correctly on the demo site.

If you check out this archive page
and scroll down, the post titled "Layout: Excerpt (Defined)" has an excerpt that has been manually set.

The excerpt override was set just as you did with excerpt: in the post's YAML Front Matter.

---
title: "Layout: Excerpt (Defined)"
excerpt: "This is a user-defined post excerpt. It should be displayed in place of the post content in archive-index pages."
categories:
  - Layout
  - Uncategorized
tags:
  - content
  - excerpt
  - layout
---

This is the post content. It should be displayed in place of the user-defined excerpt in archive-index pages.

This paragraph should be absent from an archive-index page where `post.excerpt` is shown.

Do you have a public repo somewhere and a link the source of the post that's not working? Not that it should matter but is it a post, a page, or a collection document?

[Shu-Wan]

Hi Michael, thanks for your reply!

I changed the archive-single.html to original and it works correctly this time.

I have no idea why it didn't work last night. Sorry for the trouble I made!

Thanks again for your help and this amazing theme.

[nebrelbug]

I found the issue for me was that I was running bundle exec jekyll serve -i. When I changed it to bundle exec jekyll serve it worked.

[will-7s]

Hello everyone,
I have a bug on my blog built on GitHub Minimal Mistakes.
Locally, when I run bundle exec jekyll serve, everything works well on localhost:4000 and the design is OK.
When I visit my blog online, I realised the design is not OK, and I don't know why. I need your help
Thanks in advance