Title: Full posts rather than summary
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Full posts rather than summary

 *  [Lizonomy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lizonomy/)
 * (@lizonomy)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-posts-rather-than-summary/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’ve got a problem – whatever theme I upload (and I’ve tried a lot) it will only
   ever display the title and featured image on my home page. It’s set to full posts
   in the settings so I’m totally stumped.
 * Please help!

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 *  [wamiqali](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wamiqali/)
 * (@wamiqali)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-posts-rather-than-summary/#post-3605486)
 * You need to edit your theme. For the purpose of showing the summary of every 
   post too you will need to call summary from the database using the php. Consider
   using <?php the_excerpt ?> You should add that below the php of title and featured
   image.
 * There may be other problem too like may be you have inserted break through in
   the post, consider checking the posted content too 🙂 Also give me the url of
   your blog, let me check that 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Lizonomy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lizonomy/)
 * (@lizonomy)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-posts-rather-than-summary/#post-3605488)
 * Thanks,
 * it’s lizcookman.com
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-posts-rather-than-summary/#post-3605492)
 * You actually **should NOT be editing the theme directly** – as your changes will
   be overwritten when the theme is updated. For those kinds of changes, use a Child
   Theme – [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes).
 *  Thread Starter [Lizonomy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lizonomy/)
 * (@lizonomy)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-posts-rather-than-summary/#post-3605737)
 * Hi there,
 * I really appreciate the advice from both of you, but the thing is, I don’t think
   it’s down to the particular theme. EVERY theme I load up does it, even if, in
   the example, they have full posts. Even themes I have used before on other sites
   and know they show full posts are doing it. I don’t know if there’s a glitch 
   or something?
 * Please help!!!
 * Thanks.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-posts-rather-than-summary/#post-3605738)
 * your current theme ‘ilisa’ shold be showing full posts on the front/posts page:
 * the corresponding code from content.php:
 *     ```
       <div class="entry-content">
       		<?php if ( is_archive() || is_search() ) : ?>
       			<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
       		<?php else : ?>
       				<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ): ?>
       					<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail'); ?></a>
       				<?php endif; ?>
       			<?php the_content( __( 'more →', 'ilisa' ) ); ?>
       			<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-link">' . __( 'Pages:', 'ilisa' ), 'after' => '</div>' )		 ); ?>
       		<?php endif; ?>
       		</div><!-- END .entry-content -->
       ```
   
 * in your site, this section renders virtually empty:
 *     ```
       <div class="entry-content">
   
       		</div><!-- END .entry-content -->
       ```
   
 * have you made any edits to that theme?
 * have you tried to temporarily deactivate **all **plugins to see if that changes
   anything?
 *  Thread Starter [Lizonomy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lizonomy/)
 * (@lizonomy)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-posts-rather-than-summary/#post-3605762)
 * Aha!! that has helped, thank you so much!

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 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
 * [display](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/display/)
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 * [style](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/style/)
 * [summary](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/summary/)

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 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Lizonomy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lizonomy/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-posts-rather-than-summary/#post-3605762)
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