Title: Customizing main posts page
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Customizing main posts page

 *  [jpo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpo/)
 * (@jpo)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-main-posts-page/)
 * Hello,
 * Relatively inexperienced with CSS here, just so you know..
 * I’m looking for a way to have only a portion of each post appear on my main page(
   like the first sentance..) and then have the post titles appear on my sidebar
   under the appropriate categories list.
 * I’ve seen a few reated posts in this forum but it wasn’t clear to me if this 
   topic has already been covered or not.
 * Thanks! JPO

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-main-posts-page/#post-279409)
 * The first part is easy:
    insert the “more” tag when you write a post where you
   want to break the text. The second question needs some customized coding.
 *  [estjohn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/estjohn/)
 * (@estjohn)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-main-posts-page/#post-279430)
 * For the first part, I use Post Teaser [http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/PostTeaser](http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/PostTeaser)
   so I can control the number of words I want it to have in it.. and for me, it
   is easier than manually adding the more tag.
 * I do things the easy way.. save keystrokes.. but that is just me
 *  Thread Starter [jpo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpo/)
 * (@jpo)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-main-posts-page/#post-279475)
 * OK, that was simple enough for truncating the posts.. thanks you guys! how about
   the second part (listing the posts on the sidebar under category headings).
 * I’ve found and utilized the <?php wp_get_archives();> function but it doesn’t
   accept a categories argument, but this gets me (hopefully) half-way?
 * Thanks, JPO

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