To display excerpts with each post instead of just the first, the instructions for a child theme are here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-show-only-post-titles-on-home-page?replies=5#post-5530934
To add the Read more button as well as the excerpt, you can insert some additional code in your child theme’s content.php file, after this line:
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
Here’s the code to add:
<div class="entry-permalink">
<a class="more-link" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php _e( 'Read', 'bushwick' ); ?></a>
</div><!-- .entry-permalink -->
To figure out why your site is only displaying one post, you could try undoing what you did in your child theme’s template files and starting over.
Also keep in mind that in your child theme’s style.css, you should only be placing the CSS which you’re changing. Right now, it looks like you’ve pasted in most of the parent’s CSS styles, but child themes only need the pieces of CSS which override the styles in the parent theme.
Hi Kathryn,
Thanks for your help! The ‘read me’ button works fine now.
But the homepage still shows only 1 post.
I did everything you said, including starting all over again, setting up a new child theme, with a blanc style.css file.
Maybe something is wrong in my index.php file?
The code in my index.php file now reads:
get_header(); ?>
<div id=”primary” class=”content-area”>
<main id=”main” class=”site-main” role=”main”>
<?php
get_template_part( ‘navigation’ );
if ( have_posts() ) :
the_post();
/* Include the Post-Format-specific template for the content.
* If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
* called content-___.php (where ___ is the Post Format name) and that will be used instead.
*/
//get_template_part( ‘content’ );
while ( have_posts() ) :
the_post();
get_template_part( ‘content’ );
endwhile;
bushwick_paging_nav();
else :
get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘none’ );
endif;
?>
</main><!– #main –>
</div><!– #primary –>
<?php get_footer();
But the homepage still shows only 1 post.
How many posts do you have set under Settings > Reading, “Blog pages show at most”?
It’s set to show at most 10.
The problem occurs after applying these instructions:
Change line 29 from this:
get_template_part( ‘content’ );
to this:
//get_template_part( ‘content’ );
The two slashes in front of the line mean that you’re commenting out that part of the code, rendering it inactive.
Next, change line 34 from this:
get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘preview’ );
to this:
get_template_part( ‘content’ );
Here is what my child theme looks like:
Here’s the contents of index.php from my child theme:
http://pastebin.com/8r5BMra9
And here’s content.php:
http://pastebin.com/vmk69nqp
Hope that helps you sort it out! Let me know how it goes.
