Title: Clickable Excerpt
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Clickable Excerpt

 *  [two4food](https://wordpress.org/support/users/two4food/)
 * (@two4food)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clickable-excerpt/)
 * I interested in setting a code that will enable me to do the following.
    1. Display
   full post if no excerpt is filled in. 2. Display excerpt when it is filled in
   and have link so that when one clicks on the excerpt it takes you to the full
   post.
 * I have already searched the whole forum but could not find a solution. I did 
   come across this
    ` <?php if(!$post->post_excerpt) { the_content(); } else { 
   echo "<b>".$post->post_excerpt."</b>"; }  But it falls short as I noticed it 
   not possible to insert a link to the full post.
 * I ideally I will know how insert the code below into the one above, so that when
   the excerpt is displayed, I can click on it to see the full post (the whole excerpt
   has be to clickable, not just having a link to the full post).
 * <pre>
    ` <a rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?
   php the_excerpt(); ?></a> ?>  </pre>
 * I hope I explained that well.

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 *  [Ming](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ming/)
 * (@ming)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clickable-excerpt/#post-280570)
 * Here’s the two code snippets merged together:
 * `<?php
    if(!$post->post_excerpt) { the_content(); } else { ?> <strong> <a rel
   ="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_excerpt();?
   ></a> </strong> <?php } ?>
 *  [ebenjen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ebenjen/)
 * (@ebenjen)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clickable-excerpt/#post-280912)
 * That helped me do part of what I want (I’m not the original poster) but I can’t
   figure out the next part. I tweaked it a bit so that the whole excerpt isn’t 
   the link – just the words “read more…” but when I click on the link the post 
   page only shows the excerpt.
 * Is it possible to have only the excerpt show up on the home page but the excerpt
   and post on the post page?
 * (I hope that makes sense – it seems to be a logical and common way to use an 
   excerpt.)
 * Here’s my code:
 * > <?php
   >  if(!$post->post_excerpt) { the_content(); } else { ?>
   > <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
   >  ** ” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php
   > the_title(); ?>”>there is more…  <?php } ?>
 * The site is [http://foolcrow.com](http://foolcrow.com)
 *  [Freelancealot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freelancealot/)
 * (@freelancealot)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clickable-excerpt/#post-280913)
 * Hi,
    I’m a real newbie to PHP and blogging and CMS!!
 * My first testsite is at [http://www.uttoxeter.biz/testsite/](http://www.uttoxeter.biz/testsite/)
 * I would like to have an excerpt of the latest article in each category on my ‘
   static’ home page. Then a link to the article in full.
 * I’m guessing that this is what this does, but I’d need to add the category id
   to the script above and have no idea how to do it.
 * Example: Under the People & Politics heading, I’d like an excerpt (or first few
   lines of the post / summary?) of the latest post and link to full article. I’d
   also like to put a list of links to maybe 5 of the previous articles in the the
   category using the article title as the link.
 * I want to do this for each of the categories.
 * Is this possible? Or do I need to use some sort of RSS trick?
 * Cheers,
 * Tracy
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clickable-excerpt/#post-280914)
 * Most of what you want can be done – though you’d be better off starting your 
   own topic and not hijacking this one. Your problem is not a clickable excerpt
   but a different homepage.
    You can start with this topic: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/38046](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/38046)
   it will help you to group the posts on the main page by categories.
 * As a side note: what you say on of of your [Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages)
   with the same title as one of the categories – simply is not true. Posts will
   not go to that Page. (please, read the [Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages)
   link!)
 *  [Freelancealot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freelancealot/)
 * (@freelancealot)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clickable-excerpt/#post-280917)
 * Hi,
    Thanks for the link. I didn’t mean to hijack this post. It seemed to be 
   talking about what I wanted to do. Ie include an excerpt or summary of the latest
   post.
 * Secondly, my comment about the pages having the same names as the categories 
   was a question, not a statement. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
 * I will start a new thread for this as I’m really keen to get this working. I’ve
   now got the list of 5 latest posts to that category listed on my ‘home.php’ (
   thanks to your link). So, I’m half way there.
 * Thanks.
 * Tracy

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