Hi,
I have a front page with static content, and a dynamic listing of all posts. I made it according to Transycan's instruction.
However, now I want to display the post excerpts just like they are displayed on a regular category page, so cut off before <!--more-->.
Unfortunately though, the_content, which automatically detects if my page is a single post or a post collection, decides that my front page is a single page and subsequently dumps the entire post text of ten posts, which is a wee bit too much.
How can I instruct the_content only to continue until the <--!more--> tag??
instead of the_content use the_excerpt
but that only gives me two hundred characters which I dont like...
i think there is a plugin which changes the default number of characters the_excerpt displays.
EDIT:
here we go:
http://www.cybercoder.net/wordpress-excerpt-plugin.html
great! but actually it wasnt the number of characters, but the arbitrariness of the cut at any number of characters - i always consider my "more" well and the removing of all non-text characters... but im impressed by your plugin knowledge!
Anonymous
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Posted 1 year ago #
Eiland - did you find an answer to this? I too want to be able to explicity set the "cut-off" point of the latest post on a static page. I really don't want to have to rely on a pre-defined number of characters or the excerpt field.
Any ideas?
Eiland
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