Adding sectioned off post to my blog?

  • Resolved rsaldana2008

    (@rsaldana2008)


    15 years, 7 months ago

    I was wondering if there is a plugin that can change how post are posted. If you take a look at http://slashdot.org/ you can see how each individual post is sectioned off. There is the title and a short summarization of the story. I want my readers to click the title to be taken to the full story that would be on my site still.

    The reason why I want to do this, is to allow me to add more adsense ads per post since I’m having difficulty adding more then 3 since all post are on a single page.

    I know this is possible since I’ve seen some wordpress blogs doing this but I really have no idea where to even begin looking.

    Does anyone have an idea how to section off post, but to still have the title and short summary of the post on the main homepage?

    I’m not sure if I’m describing this correctly…please forgive me…I’ve haven’t been getting much sleep lately.

    Thanks.

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  • Evita

    (@evita)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    You have to edit your wordpress template files (wp-content/themes/YOURTHEME). Open index.php, search after <?php the_content(); ?> and change it to <?php the_excerpt(); ?>.

    Thread Starter rsaldana2008

    (@rsaldana2008)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Evita,

    Thank you so much for replying!! I’m so lost…

    By the way…I really have no idea what you mean..I’m really sorry =(

    I searched for <?php but I found nothing, I have no idea what to do but I would appreciate it if you could help me.

    My blog is at http://www.thegoldenswing.com

    Can you guide me on this? Or tell me where I can learn how to do it? Thanks.

    Evita

    (@evita)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    I searched for <?php but I found nothing

    Where have you searched?

    Thread Starter rsaldana2008

    (@rsaldana2008)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    sorry for the late reply. I search index.php

    the home page…was I suppose to search another place?

    agent009

    (@agent009)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    What evita meant was this.

    Navigate to the folder: wp-content/themes/yourchosentheme

    “yourchosentheme” is the theme you are using, which by default is something like “default”, so the folder you need to view is the following:

    wp-content/themes/default

    From this directory, open the file index.php

    FIND

    <?php the_content

    REPLACE WITH

    <?php the_excerpt

    agent009

    (@agent009)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    If I am mistaken, please ignore my post 😛

    I am fairly new to WordPress as well.

    Thread Starter rsaldana2008

    (@rsaldana2008)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    WOW!!!

    I actually did something cool thanks to Evita and Agent009!!!

    Could I ask just one more favor? could you tell me your honest opinion regarding the new change? Does it look good like that?

    Evita

    (@evita)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Design is always a matter of taste – it looks okay for me.

    Thread Starter rsaldana2008

    (@rsaldana2008)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Well im constantly improving my site and im always open to suggestions. By the way…do you know how I can change the title of the post to the color of my links? I want the reader to know he/she can click the link to be taken to the full story.

    How can I do this?

    Evita

    (@evita)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    All styles are in your style.css. Style for your titles should be following line (in style.css):
    div.generaltitle div.title a{text-decoration:none;color:#fff;}

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