Title: Improve Post Preview
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Improve Post Preview

 *  Resolved [bcastillo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcastillo/)
 * (@bcastillo)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improve-post-preview/)
 * Hi,
 * I want to remove this block of text in the posts page ([image link](http://i.imgur.com/SXMvhon.jpg)).
   Apparently the “read more” in editor is not working.
 * I just want to put “Read More” or the 1st sentence of the post.
    Is there any
   other way around this?
 * Thanks

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improve-post-preview/#post-6273886)
 * what theme are youy using?
 * your theme might be using ‘the_excerpt()’ instead of ‘the_content()’ in the index
   page template….
 *  Thread Starter [bcastillo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcastillo/)
 * (@bcastillo)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improve-post-preview/#post-6274009)
 * It’s tech gostore. It’s not listed in themes.
 * I understand that I need to use ‘the_excerpt()’ and include it in the template
   but how do I use it?
 *  Thread Starter [bcastillo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcastillo/)
 * (@bcastillo)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improve-post-preview/#post-6274018)
 * I solved it:
 * I went to content.php
    I looked for the “the_content(); and replaced it with:
 * `<?php /*the_content();*/the_excerpt_max_words(30,$post); ?>`
 * 30 is the number of words to be displayed.

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 * Last reply from: [bcastillo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcastillo/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improve-post-preview/#post-6274018)
 * Status: resolved

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