Title: Issue with the_content()
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Issue with the_content()

 *  [chris7519](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chris7519/)
 * (@chris7519)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-the_content/)
 * I’m new to WordPress and I’m having issues with the_content(). I want to just
   include a portion of the post so I have the quicktag `<!--more-->` inserted into
   it. However, the_content() is grabbing the entire post. I can get around this
   issue with the_excerpt(), but I’m wondering what I’m doing wrong.
 *     ```
       <div class="text_block">
           <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title();?></a></h2>
           <small>on <?php the_time('M d'); ?> in <?php the_category(', '); ?> tagged <?php the_tags(''); ?> by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></small>
           <?php the_content(); ?>
       </div>
       ```
   

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-the_content/#post-1779645)
 * where exactly is that?
 * for instance, `the_content()` should show the part before the ‘more’ tag on index.
   php (the front page) while it would show the full content in single.php.
 * some info:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More](http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More)
 * a link to your site might help to explain thing a little better.

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 * [the_content](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/the_content/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-the_content/#post-1779645)
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