Title: Excerpt View
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Excerpt View

 *  Resolved [honestpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/honestpress/)
 * (@honestpress)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/)
 * Hi, I’m a new user of WordPress so sorry if this is a basic question. Is it possible
   to make it so that only, say, the first ten lines of a blog post are displayed
   beneath a post title on the main page of the site meaning that the whole article
   can only be viewed if clicked upon? I want this so that more posts can be seen
   with ease on the main page rather than having to scroll down to see the different
   posts. Thanks.

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 *  [wprock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wprock/)
 * (@wprock)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/#post-1982871)
 * use the_excerpt() function instead of the_content() function. Edit your index.
   php for this change.
 *  Thread Starter [honestpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/honestpress/)
 * (@honestpress)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/#post-1982985)
 * Sorry, but I’m a novice – could you walk me through step by step what I need 
   to do? I’ve looked at my index.php file, but am not quite sure what or how to
   change it. Thanks.
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/#post-1983008)
 * All depends on how your theme is coded if you can paste the theme index.php file
   in [http://wordpress.pastebin.com](http://wordpress.pastebin.com) and paste the
   url here so that can help where exactly you need to make the change.
 *  [samie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samie/)
 * (@samie)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/#post-1983011)
 * It’s not too difficult, but yeah if you wanted to post the coding like govpatel
   explained, I’m sure someone could help.
 * The index.php file is that of your themes and is typically located at /wp-content/
   themes/<insert-theme-name>/index.php.
 *  Thread Starter [honestpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/honestpress/)
 * (@honestpress)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/#post-1983101)
 * Hi, thanks for your help. The theme is Oulipo and I’ve uploaded the index.php
   file here: [http://pastebin.com/Sc1PEwSX](http://pastebin.com/Sc1PEwSX)
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/#post-1983102)
 * In line 18 change the_content to the_excerpt
 *  Thread Starter [honestpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/honestpress/)
 * (@honestpress)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/#post-1983115)
 * Hi, thanks for your help. I think I’ve made the changes correctly but the full
   posts are still displaying on my front page. Here is the code now: [http://pastebin.com/L4fptqxC](http://pastebin.com/L4fptqxC)
 * Have I done something wrong?
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/#post-1983116)
 * Is there any way you can post your url so we can see
 *  Thread Starter [honestpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/honestpress/)
 * (@honestpress)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/#post-1983117)
 * Here you go: [http://www.wavecomposition.com/](http://www.wavecomposition.com/)
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/#post-1983118)
 * Are you using a post or a page when you created that article.
 *  Thread Starter [honestpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/honestpress/)
 * (@honestpress)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/#post-1983119)
 * A post
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/#post-1983120)
 * how did you make the changes?
 * in ‘dashboard’ ‘appearance’ ‘editor’ – selected ‘Main Index Template’ (index.
   php), edited, and then pressed the ‘update file’ button?
 * or locally on your computer and the ftp the edited file back into its original
   location?
 * can you check, using the first method, if the changes really are in your theme?
 *  Thread Starter [honestpress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/honestpress/)
 * (@honestpress)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/#post-1983123)
 * Hey, that’s solved it – I did it by FTP, but for whatever reason the changes 
   were not registering on the site. Thanks for all your help everyone!
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-view/#post-1983125)
 * You are welcome

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