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1. Lansluaght
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Hi, this has been bothering me for a while but i hadn't attached enough value to it untill now. With 2.7 up and running i'd figure it's now or never, even though it's probably stupidly simple:

   How do i get my front page to only show the first X ammount or words or lines from a post followed by a 'Read more...' button, and not the entire post itself? I figured it's not the excerpt thing (Though, not being a native english speaker, i don't really know what it is), but i can't figure out what does do what i want either. I see it everywhere, but can't figure out how to do it myself.

   Is this a plugin?

2. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 10 months ago #

   You use the more Quicktag, <!--more-->, in your post to note the cutoff point. See Customizing_the_Read_More for more info.

3. Lansluaght
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   "If you have set your WordPress site to display post excerpts on the front or home page, ..." I fumble over the first line. Where do i enable that? looked through all the settings tabs, not in there :(

4. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Switch to the WordPress Default Theme.

   Write a post with this in the body of the post:

   This is an example of using the more which cuts off here <!--more--> and this is the rest of the posts.

   Save the post, visit your site.

   Also look at wp-content/themes/default/index.php for how the_content is structured.

5. Lansluaght
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Sorry for my long strike of absence there, but i'll get right back into it.

   I'd tried simply inserting the <!--more--> quicktag into a post, but it didn't work, as with your example. I made a new post, copy+pasted that in the body, published it, and the entire thing just showed up on my front page. Still no cut-off or anything.
   And the only mention of the_content in my index.php file is :

   <div class="entry">
   					<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
   				</div>

   Which i can't make anything up out of.

6. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Try changing to the HTML editor and or with the Visual Editor use the "Insert More Tag" button.

   That code looks okay.

7. Gangleri
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Alternately you can look for excerpt plugins. I use Excerpt Editor myself, it's quite flexible.

8. washingtonautocredit
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   I am trying to make my home page display the summary, and I have that selected in the wp-admin area, but no dice. I hope maybe you can tell me why. This is my code:

   <div id="content">
   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <?php global $more; $more = 0; ?>
   <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

   <h2>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
   <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>
   <div class="entry">
   <?php the_content('Read More...'); ?>
   </div>

   <p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '
   '); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?> <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>

   </div>

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