Do you want the longer ones truncated (shortened) and the short ones left alone to see full on the front page and category/archives/search pages? Or do you want to shorten all of them?
There are several ways to do this. If you want to customize your excerpts (short left alone, long shortened) then check out the Loop in Action.
Customizing the “read more” tag
the_content() template tag
the_excerpt() template tag
The Excerpt Reloaded Plugin for styling the front page excerpts
The WordPress Loop
The Loop in Action
Conditional Tags
Look around in your WP admin pane > Write > Write Post section. Among the quicktags (above the text area) you’ll see a button <more>. Use it freely 🙂 On your main page the posts will be “truncated” where the <more> tag is inserted + a “more… ” link will be displayed.
Thanx, folks. I appreciate the assistance. What was weird was that I couldn’t see what the heck moshu was talking about — the ‘more’ button, while working on my site in Safari. When I opened up the admin panel in IE I saw it clear as day. That’s a bummer. < sigh > I hate IE on the Mac.
Anyway… no browser commentary. Thanx again!
krugeri, quicktag buttons work in camino…if you want to give it a shot (I like it better than safari…but that’s just me). 😉
IE for Mac blows.
Ah… I had forgotten about Camino. I will give it a shot.
Thanx.
And don’t forget Firefox!
The transition from Safari to Camino is a little easier than Firefox. Especially when it comes to exporting/importing bookmarks.
Although, Camino doesn’t have all the “extras” that firefox has. 🙂 There’s actually a plugin somewhere that gives extra preferences for Camino…can’t think of where or what it is right now, though.
