the_content template tag displays the full content; the_excerpt displays the summary.
I’ve not ever tried this, but I know you’re getting exactly what you’re calling – the full post.
Maybe take a quick glance at this page – I think it may be the direction you want to go.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt
As mentioned, either use the_excerpt() or use the <!-- More --> tag.
personally, I find the latter a lot easier…
Sorry, I should’ve mentioned. All my posts are using <!--more-->, plus I’ve tried using the_excerpt, and it doesn’t seem to work either.
I’ve basically created a page (with no content), and set the template to my custom template (I’ve pasted the top part of it below).
<?php
/*
Template Name: Display All
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
<?php if (have_posts()) :
echo "USING DISPLAY ALL TEMPLATE";
query_posts('showposts=-1&orderby=title&order=ASC');
?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<div class="entry">
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>
I don’t have it running on an externally accessible server unfortunately.
Happy to post/email/whatever the full template file, if someone wants to try it for themselves. And I guess I should try a fresh WP install, and try it on that (since I’ve got a bunch of experimental stuff on the current install)
Finally figured out the problem. I think I misread whatever reference I found that suggested using query_posts — I assumed it loaded posts ready to use in the_loop, whereas it actually just displays them. So what I thought was a problem with the_excerpt was actually 2 different sets of behaviour:
1) query_posts was dumping all posts into the page and,
2) the loop code starting with while (have_posts()) : was actually returning nothing, so the_excerpt function wasn’t actually being executed.
