Title: Cutting Off Long Posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Cutting Off Long Posts

 *  [gobbly2100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gobbly2100/)
 * (@gobbly2100)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cutting-off-long-posts/)
 * Hey folks,
 * I seem to have an issue where long posts are being cut off, it is like it is 
   being cut off in the WYSIWYG editor.
 * What could be causing this?

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 *  [Shane G.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g-1/)
 * (@shane-g-1)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cutting-off-long-posts/#post-1504585)
 * Hi,
 * You may need to edit the index.php file of your theme and find this code:
 * `the_excerpt()`
 * Replace with:
 * `the_content()`
 * Once, you change the code, it will display full post.
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  Thread Starter [gobbly2100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gobbly2100/)
 * (@gobbly2100)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cutting-off-long-posts/#post-1504594)
 * Thanks for that Shane, I just checked it and it is already using the content 
   function.
 * The only thing that makes me wonder if it is the theme or not is that it is actually
   cutting it off when I save the post within the editor.
 * Any other possible ideas?
 * Thank!
 *  Thread Starter [gobbly2100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gobbly2100/)
 * (@gobbly2100)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cutting-off-long-posts/#post-1504690)
 * It appears that it is something to do with the input I am pasting from some Word
   documents, does the WordPress editor not have a system that can control these
   issues?
 * If I use quotation marks such as ( ‘ ’, “ ” ) as opposed to apostrophe ( ’ ‘ ).
 * Any ideas folks?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cutting-off-long-posts/#post-1504697)
 * Don’t paste content from Microsoft Word into WordPress as the pasted text will
   also contain Word’s own formatting. Sooner or later, this formatting will stop
   your pages from being displayed correctly (if at all) in Internet Explorer. If
   you cannot possibly manage without Word, paste your text into NotePad (or another
   text editor) first, then copy from NotePad into WordPress.
 * Or use the [inbuilt Paste from Word option](http://www.getwordpressed.com/learning-wordpress/paste-easily-to-wordpress-from-ms-word/)
   in the Visual Editor. Or Windows LiveWriter.
 *  Thread Starter [gobbly2100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gobbly2100/)
 * (@gobbly2100)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cutting-off-long-posts/#post-1504705)
 * Ah that is it, thanks!
 * Only thing is, the in-built copy and paste function for Word does not actually
   work, that is pretty annoying so maybe I need to find out what the LiveWriter
   is about.
 * Thanks for your help!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [gobbly2100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gobbly2100/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cutting-off-long-posts/#post-1504705)
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