Create a child theme as per the instructions here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Copy over content.php and change the_content to the_excerpt – but that’s just the basics and there’s more to it. At first all will seem OK but a closer look you’ll see that the Gallery does not show – this is where it gets technical and before I go in to that, what is your coding comfort level?
Or you could just wait a day or two, there’s a child theme coming up in the repository that addresses that and much more 🙂
I’m not much of a coder at all, but am able to follow detailed instructions. I can wait for the child theme. Stupid question – where exactly are you referring to when you say “up in the repository?” Thanks for your help Zulf!
I can wait for the child theme.
Do not ever modify a default theme – it’s crucial for many troubleshooting purposes. And any changes to default themes will be overwritten when WP is updated. It’s easy to make one yourself – see the link above.
Once its live it will appear here: http://wordpress.org/themes/
and on my profile page 🙂
Hey zwrodgers don’t forget the Read More tool ( last icon up to the right in the edit toolbar ). With that you can exactly establish where you want the text to finish in the archive, index ecc…
