Title: Make posts page show excerpts()
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Make posts page show excerpts()

 *  Resolved [marques_uk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marques_uk/)
 * (@marques_uk)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-page-show-excerpts/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I have yet another excerpts question.
 * Is there a way to make all your posts on the main blog page excerpts rather than
   show full posts?
 * I’m using the loop.php file from the twentyten theme, I can change the_content()
   function to the_excerpt() however that just makes all posts excerpts rather than
   just the posts page as expected.
 * Is there a way to edit the code below so it includes the page listed as the posts
   page in Settings > Reading?
 *     ```
       <?php if ( is_archive() || is_search() ) : // Only display excerpts for archives and search. ?>
       			<div class="entry-summary">
       				<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
       			</div><!-- .entry-summary -->
       	<?php else : ?>
       ```
   
 * Thanks in advance
    marques_uk

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-page-show-excerpts/#post-2832983)
 * `if ( is_home() || is_archive() || is_search() ) :`
 *  Thread Starter [marques_uk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marques_uk/)
 * (@marques_uk)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-page-show-excerpts/#post-2832996)
 * Hi,
 * This doesn’t work for me, I’m using a static page so I also tried is_front_page()?
 * I’m using a page called ‘Our Blog’ as my posts page.
 * Any other ideas?
 * Many thanks
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-page-show-excerpts/#post-2833000)
 * _**the conditional statement occurs more than once in loop.php – have you edited
   it all?**_
 * btw: this question has been answered before and should be found using forum search.
 * > This doesn’t work for me, I’m using a static page so I also tried is_front_page()?
   > I’m using a page called ‘Our Blog’ as my posts page.
 * should make no difference;
 * the conditional tag `is_home()` refers to the posts page:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_home](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_home)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#The_Main_Page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#The_Main_Page)
 * alternatively, you can edit this whole section:
 *     ```
       <?php if ( is_archive() || is_search() ) : // Only display excerpts for archives and search. ?>
       			<div class="entry-summary">
       				<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
       			</div><!-- .entry-summary -->
       	<?php else : ?>
       			<div class="entry-content">
       				<?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentyten' ) ); ?>
       				<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-link">' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyten' ), 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>
       			</div><!-- .entry-content -->
       	<?php endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * and change it to:
 *     ```
       <div class="entry-summary">
       				<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
       			</div><!-- .entry-summary -->
       ```
   
 * again, make sure to find and edit all occurrances in loop.php
 *  Thread Starter [marques_uk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marques_uk/)
 * (@marques_uk)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-page-show-excerpts/#post-2833008)
 * Thanks for your help. I’ll go through and edit the loop.php file.
 * I had searched the WordPress forums for this solution, and did find similar questions
   however must answers were replace the_content() with the_excerpt() and to be 
   honest I didn’t realise the conditional tag is_home() refers to the posts page
   that isn’t my home page as well.
 * Least I know for future projects.
 * Thanks again.
 *  [singhabhishek251](https://wordpress.org/support/users/singhabhishek251/)
 * (@singhabhishek251)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-page-show-excerpts/#post-2833298)
 * YOu can use `<?php if( is_page('5') ) { ?>` instead of is_home() ; Replace 5 
   with your page id which you are using for showing post. I am sure you may have
   found the solution, but I think it would be helpful for someone else also.

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## Tags

 * [excerpts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/excerpts/)
 * [loop.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/loop-php/)
 * [posts page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/posts-page/)
 * [the_excerpt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/the_excerpt/)

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