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1. crankypot
   Member
   Posted 6 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 http://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 6 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 6 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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