Social links placement for excerpts below the entry title

[mtomas7]

Hello,

I noticed that plugins like Floating Social Bar places its icons also for top excerpt, please see image. This capture is of a single post.

Should the theme be changed to avoid this behavior or it is a plugin's fault?

Thank you!

[iamtakashi]

A default theme won't change because of a particular plugin :)

Jetpack sharing button has been adjusted to not show up there. I'm not saying the plugin should do the same but just FYI.

[brentlogan]

I think this could have been an easy fix. In the function twentysixteen_excerpt, replace <?php the_excerpt(); ?> with

     <?php
        $my_excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
        echo $my_excerpt;
     ?>

Twenty Sixteen is admittedly using the excerpt in a ground-breaking fashion. A little backward compatibility is a good thing, IMHO.

[mtomas7]

Thank you for this fix, now I can use this approach in my theme! :)

P.S. and nobody got hurt by implementing this.

P.P.S. Default WP themes should show good example for other developers.

[brentlogan]

Even if Twenty Sixteen is not modified, all is not lost: twentysixteen_excerpt has been written to be able to be overridden in a simple plugin. No editing of the theme files is necessary.