All my posts are being published as excerpts

  • Resolved james brown

    (@james-brown)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    I am fairly new to WordPress. I set one up with no problem but on my second one all my posts are being published as excerpts. I have set a home page with a long letter and it looks great. But when I click on a post to see what it looks like, it just shows up like this:

    and so you can […] How do I set it so that my posts are published fully. I don’t understand the use of excerpts and do not plan to use them although while searching my problem, i see others use them

    I am using wordpress 2.9.2

    Thanks
    James

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    the way posts are shown is determined by your theme.

    the theme files may have the_excerpt() in most places (and most php files) where you would prefer to have the_content().

    you could work your way through the theme files and replace the code.

    christhesoul

    (@christhesoul)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hi James

    Have you checked the ‘reading’ settings on the dashboard?

    You can choose ‘full text’ or ‘summary’.

    Failing that, I guess it’s something in the theme. Are you using a custom theme, or a default one?

    Cheers
    Chris

    Shane G.

    (@shane-g-1)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    You need to edit index.php as well as single.php/page.php file in your theme and find this code:

    the_excerpt()

    Replace with:

    the_content()

    Thanks,

    Shane G.

    Thread Starter james brown

    (@james-brown)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    I am using a custom theme that I uploaded from wordpress. My reading is set at full text.

    I guess I will have to try and find the theme files and try what alchmyth has suggested. I will let you know how I do.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter james brown

    (@james-brown)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hi Everyone,

    I really appreciate your comments. It turns out it was the theme, that was causing the problem. As I slammed with projects, I decided to switch to the default theme for the time being.

    I can always go back and change it later.

    Thanks again, you saved me a lot of time, i was going to go back and review the tutorials I use to build my sites but I know the answer wouldn’t have been there.
    Regards,
    James

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