Comments on: Display Post Excerpts Only in WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Thu, 23 May 2013 16:58:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-982201 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:36:55 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-982201 WordPress.com sites do not allow you to customize the WordPress Theme elements such as forcing the display of excerpts. Few WordPress Themes force excerpts on the front page, which is the page you are most worried about I assume.

To control the length of the excerpts, simply use the MORE button feature on the toolbar in the post. Set your cursor to where you would like the excerpt to end and click the MORE button. Done. Easy.

The article’s information is from 2006 and relates to only the self-hosted version of WordPress. Thanks!

]]> By: Black Frog Publishing http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-982175 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:14:10 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-982175 Hi Lorelle,

Sorry if this is basic question… I am pretty basic!

My blog is a free version and I am using Elegant Grunge theme.

Does this theme have the facility to display excerpts of my posts? I can’t seem to tell.

Can I change to display excerpts using the above directions using code – swapping ‘content fot ‘excerpt’ and adding in the ‘more ‘ tag? I can’t seem to find ‘content’ in my text editor view?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

many thanks,

kirsty

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]]> By: madridko http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-967218 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:42:39 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-967218 oh, code not showing… should have known :)

]]> By: madridko http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-967217 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:41:32 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-967217 Thank you so much, clearest explanation I found about changing the way posts are shown. I started yesterday with wordpress and everything went much in automatic mode until i found I needed to show complete posts, and my template seemed to have excerpt by default.
In my case I have installed WordPress in spanish so I went to “Escritorio -> Apariencia -> Editor”, choose “archive.php” of my template (Responsive), located this line “” change it for
Cheers mate!

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-961996 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:27:49 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-961996 Actually, there are several Plugins that will convert full content to excerpts now. That’s one of them.

I love it that WordPress has evolved to make it so easy to make such changes with WordPress Plugins. Still, I wish this one was in the core as it is so commonly requested and a basic functionality of WordPress. The “more” helps, but you have to remember it every time.

]]> By: Brad Armpitt http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-961988 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:11:43 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-961988 I realize this is an old post, but it’s still very relevant. Personally, I don’t like changing core code because then you have to re-do it whenever there is an update. To combat that problem, ‘Post Teaser’ is a plugin that will take care of it for you if your theme doesn’t allow such a customization. Get it, install it, use it. I’ve been using it on several of my blogs for some time now with no problems. – Brad

]]> By: Garen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-955562 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:59:50 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-955562 Ahh, man this post saved me so much headache. I was unfortunate to buy a blog template without the achieves the way I wanted it. Google have me the big slap for duplicate content for my categories matching my post. Uhhhh very frustrating, but I just wanted to stop by and say thanks so much for the great blog post. It helped me out so so much!

Garen

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-947990 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:37:54 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-947990 If you did it right, it would work. Double check you did this on the right WordPress template files and all that apply.

]]> By: sajid http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-947968 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:17:59 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/display-post-excerpts-only-in-wordpress/#comment-947968 Great Sharing.. i searched and replaced the_content(); with the_excerpt(); but nothing happend……. I am using WP Version 3.3

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