Title: Make a Summary?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Make a Summary?

 *  [cyberknight8610](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberknight8610/)
 * (@cyberknight8610)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-a-summary/)
 * How can I make it where my posts will be a summary on the front page and not 
   the full post?
 * Here is my website-
    [http://cyberduelist.com/](http://cyberduelist.com/)

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-a-summary/#post-1777667)
 * In your theme’s template (all themes are different)
 * replace `<?php the_content(); ?>`
 * with `<?php the_excerpt(); ?>`
 * documentation: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt)
 *  Thread Starter [cyberknight8610](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberknight8610/)
 * (@cyberknight8610)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-a-summary/#post-1777883)
 * where is this?

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 * Last reply from: [cyberknight8610](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyberknight8610/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-a-summary/#post-1777883)
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