Title: _excerpt and _content Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # _excerpt and _content * [BennoH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennoh/) * (@bennoh) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/) * I am having difficulty finding where to change the _excerpt line to _content on the minimal xpert theme. If anybody could enlighten me as to where this is I would greatly appreciate it. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 21 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/page/2/?output_format=md) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293310) * It depends upon what page you want to change. And you need to be looking for ` the_excerpt();` and replacing it with `the_content();`. * Thread Starter [BennoH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennoh/) * (@bennoh) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293317) * I want to change the home page… i.e. the page where posts from the dashboard are displayed. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293322) * Site url? * Thread Starter [BennoH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennoh/) * (@bennoh) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293324) * [http://www.manzatela.com](http://www.manzatela.com) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293602) * Then try editing the theme’s index.php template file. * Thread Starter [BennoH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennoh/) * (@bennoh) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293616) * Thanks esmi, but it isn’t there… All that is in index.php is * _[Code moderated as per the [Forum Rules](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code). Please use the [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/)]_ * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293617) * Try looking in post-entry.php. * Thread Starter [BennoH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennoh/) * (@bennoh) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293638) * The closest I can find there is `the_news_excerpt`. Is this it maybe? Allthough, when I just tried to change this, it reverted some posts on the homepage back to an old version(Changed the alignment from left to center). * Thread Starter [BennoH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennoh/) * (@bennoh) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293639) * To be honest esmi, I have scoured all of the templates and cannot find that line of code anywhere. Might it be written a different way? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293644) * Is there a post.php file? * Thread Starter [BennoH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennoh/) * (@bennoh) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293647) * No, just post-entry.php or single.php * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293648) * Then look in post-entry.php * Thread Starter [BennoH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennoh/) * (@bennoh) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293650) * I looked there also, the closest thing I could find was `the_news_excerpt`, and changing this didn’t change anything, except reverted my posts from being left aligned, to being center aligned. I am trying to show the whole post, and remove the ‘read more’ link on minimal xpert theme. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293651) * Next you need to find the `the_news_excerpt()` function in the theme’s functions. php file. * Thread Starter [BennoH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennoh/) * (@bennoh) * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/#post-2293652) * I cannot find the_news_excerpt() in function.php. And having changed the post- entry.php I am now getting a fatal error * > ‘Fatal error: Call to undefined function the_news_content() in /home/bennoh/ > public_html/wp-content/themes/minimal-xpert/post-entry.php on line 13’ * on my site Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 21 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘_excerpt and _content’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 21 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [DJIO | Dionizio Bach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djio/) * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/_excerpt-and-_content/page/2/#post-2293794) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics