Title: Adding post ‘previews’
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Adding post ‘previews’

 *  [kwwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwwood/)
 * (@kwwood)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-previews/)
 * Is it possible to generate something where I could call a post and say only pull
   the first 150 characters or what not??
    e.g. a section where I call the last (
   or second or third last posts) and pull the first 150 characters and the title
   and display that somewhere on the page. Is this possible? make any sense?

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 *  [oubliette](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oubliette/)
 * (@oubliette)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-previews/#post-519132)
 * php the_excert
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-previews/#post-519139)
 * To clarify a bit:
 * Check your theme’s index.php. Find `the_content()` and replace it with `the_excerpt()`.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-post-previews/#post-519139)
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