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1. kerouaac
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hi everybody, is it possible to change the excerpt to a paragraph instead of the number of words?

   I'm developing a news website and I wanted to show the lead (first paragraph), instead of a defined number of words...

2. premiumwp
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Yes, provide an explicit excerpt for the post in the post editor's optional excerpt field, rather than letting it display an automatic excerpt. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

3. kerouaac
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Yes, I already changed the excerpt length to 30 words, but I want to display a whole paragraph. Because the number of words in a paragraph vary...

4. kerouaac
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I discovered that an alternative is using the the_content() instead of the_excerpt, but the more_tag is not working...

   wordpress codex suggests using this as a solution:

   <?php
   global $more; // Declare global $more (before the loop).
   $more = 1; // Set (inside the loop) to display content above the more tag.
   the_content("");
   ?>

   however I can't understand where to place that line of code...
   can somebody help me?

5. premiumwp
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   To clarify more what I was explaining. You can specify exactly what you want to show as your excerpt (be it a sentence, a couple of sentences, or a full paragraph) by manually entering the text you want as your excerpt into the Excerpt field located under the post edit box. Please see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Excerpt

   Note: The Excerpt field is hidden by default if it has not been used before. Can be enabled in the “Screen Options”

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