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1. crankypot
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi,

   This is my first post to this forum.
   I am using WordPress 2.0 and i want to be able to diplay just summaries of articles on the front page, and not the full text. How do i do that. I went seraching through my admin panel everywhere but i couldn't find it. Only thing that i found is to post summaries for syndication feeds.

   Any help on this will be appreciated.
   You can go to my site www.crankypot.com and see that it currently dispalys full text. Not summaries.

   I wen through this forum and only thing i found to replace the_content with the_excerpt but my theme doesn't have those lines.
   Here is the index.php from my theme (black_letterhead)
   <?php get_header(); ?>

   <div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <?php require('post.php'); ?>
   <?php endwhile; ?>

   <div class="navigation">
   <div class="alignleft"><?php posts_nav_link('','','« Previous Entries') ?></div>
   <div class="alignright"><?php posts_nav_link('','Next Entries »','') ?></div>
   </div>

   <?php else : ?>

   <h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
   <p class="center"><?php _e("Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here."); ?>
   <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>

   <?php endif; ?>

   </div>

   <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

   <?php get_footer(); ?>

   Thanks in advance

2. Ming
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I've never used that theme but you see the line require('post.php')? That's calling a file called post.php and I'll bet the_content() tags are in there. Replace those with the_excerpt() and you should be good.

3. crankypot
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hey, that worked. Thanks a lot.

   One more quick question.
   Is there any way to put "read more..."(as a link) instead of [...]?

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