Title: Make Posts in Summary form
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Make Posts in Summary form

 *  [herryscary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/herryscary/)
 * (@herryscary)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-in-summary-form/)
 * I’ve been searching for close to an hour now haven’t really gotten anywhere so
   I’ve decided to post. I think this should be easy but I’m new to WordPress so
   sorry if this is a dumb question.
 * I set my site up to have a static homepage and left all the posts under a page
   called “Articles” (the “Articles” page has no content, just set up in Settings
   > Reading).
 * I’m using Twenty Twelve theme by the way.
 * What happens is, under the “Articles” menu, all the posts are shown in whole 
   and listed by order of publication. Is there a way to just show an intro or summary,
   so visitors can see many article titles (and their summaries) and just click 
   read more, instead of having to scroll to get to the older posts? (Just for the
   Articles and without touching the static homepage)
 * It would be great if there were a plugin, since I won’t really know how to fix
   the HTML things.
 * Thanks.

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 *  [helpfulwebhosting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helpfulwebhosting/)
 * (@helpfulwebhosting)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-in-summary-form/#post-3734958)
 * One way to do this would be to make use the ‘more tag’ in the post editor. Inserting
   a more tag into a post means that when the post is displayed in a list of posts
   like in your ‘Articles’ page, only the bit of the post up to the more tag is 
   displayed, followed by a ‘Continue Reading’ link.
 * To insert a more tag n the visual editor, press the button in the top row next
   to the left of the ‘ABC’ spellchecker button. It has two rectangles with a dashed
   line between them. When using the text editor you can put <!–more–> to do the
   same thing. The big advantage of this approach, besides keeping it all in the
   editor, is that you get to decide exactly where the break point in your content
   goes.
 * I appreciate that you’re not keen on editing code, but in case other readers 
   are interested, an alternative approach on Twenty Twelve would be to edit ‘content.
   php’ and change this line:
 * `<?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?>`
 * to
 * `<?php if ( is_search() || is_archive() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search
   or Archives ?>`
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-in-summary-form/#post-3734968)
 * start by creating a child theme of Twenty Twelve for the customisations; [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * then create a copy of content.php in the child theme, and edit the line as suggested
   by [@helpfulwebhosting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helpfulwebhosting/);
   
   to have the excerpts on the posts page as well, change the line to:
 * `<?php if ( is_search() || is_archive() || is_home() ) : // Only display Excerpts
   for Search or Archives or Posts Page ?>`
 *  Thread Starter [herryscary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/herryscary/)
 * (@herryscary)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-in-summary-form/#post-3735003)
 * Cool! Thanks that did the trick.
 * Hope I’m not pushing my luck here. I’ve got one last question.
 * When I started making posts I did them as pages. I now know that was wrong.
 * Is there a way compile 3 or 4 pages into something like how the “Articles” page
   is done? Except that instead of listing posts, you can list the summaries of 
   pages and list them downwards. I’d like to do this to the pages a made because
   they call under a similar topic.
 * I couldn’t seem to find a way to do this.
 * Thanks!
 *  [helpfulwebhosting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helpfulwebhosting/)
 * (@helpfulwebhosting)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-in-summary-form/#post-3735009)
 * Glad that helped.
 * There are plug-ins that can convert pages to posts and vice versa. In fact one
   is actually called [vice versa](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vice-versa/).
 * If you’re just starting out and it’s only three or four pages I would probably
   just cut and paste from the unwanted pages into a new posts for each one. Don’t
   forget to set your category. If you want to get your new posts to show up in 
   the correct order you might also want to amend the ‘publish’ date.
 * By the way, [@alchymyth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) was 
   quite right to add to my comment earlier – one should always edit child themes,
   and people using the coding-based solution would need to use is_home() to get
   it to work on the page that’s set as the blog page.
 *  Thread Starter [herryscary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/herryscary/)
 * (@herryscary)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-in-summary-form/#post-3735061)
 * Thanks again.
 * I followed your advice and just manually cut and paste the contents from the 
   pages to posts. Good tip on the categories and the child themes.
 * I am thinking of making an extra menu that will list all the posts in a single
   category (similar to the “Articles” menu option, but for a specific category),
   is there a way to do this?
 *  [helpfulwebhosting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helpfulwebhosting/)
 * (@helpfulwebhosting)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-in-summary-form/#post-3735074)
 * Hello herryscary. You’ll love how easy it is to add categories to the menu. In
   Appearance. Menus you’ll see a block labelled ‘Categories’. You just have to 
   select the Category you want and press Add to Menu.
 * You can learn all about menus in the official documentation
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_Screen](http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_Screen)
 *  Thread Starter [herryscary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/herryscary/)
 * (@herryscary)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-in-summary-form/#post-3735079)
 * Thanks so much for your help helpfulwebhosting!

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