Title: Missing entry text?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Missing entry text?

 *  Resolved [tduncan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tduncan/)
 * (@tduncan)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-entry-text/)
 * I searched for this, but wasn’t finding anything. My apologies if this has been
   asked before.
 * I’m exporting entries from MT 2.661 to WordPress 2.3.1, and for the most part
   everything is showing up perfectly. However, the entry text is not showing on
   any archive pages (either category or monthly) except for the default (‘Hello
   World’) entry.
 * Perfectly fine index
    [http://clubjade.net/wordpress/](http://clubjade.net/wordpress/)
 * Category/Date issue
    [http://clubjade.net/wordpress/?cat=13](http://clubjade.net/wordpress/?cat=13)
   [http://clubjade.net/wordpress/?m=200409](http://clubjade.net/wordpress/?m=200409)
 * I’m using Powazek’s [DePo Clean](http://powazek.com/posts/516) theme, and this
   isn’t the case on his site. However, when I switch to another downloaded theme,
   the same thing happens on the index as well. (Everything is a-okay on the defaults.)
   And I don’t understand enough of the code yet to figure out why it works one 
   but not the others. I suppose it might have something to do with these themes
   not being optimized for 2.3.1?

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-entry-text/#post-649322)
 * Bringing my (albeit limited) powers of deductive reasoning to bear on this, I
   think I know the answer.
 * The theme you have uses archive.php for the template to display dated and category
   archives, and that template (in the case of this theme) implements [the_excerpt()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt)
   rather than [the_content()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content)
   to display post content (a way of keeping page size to a minimum on ‘back’ pages).
 * What I suspect is that during the import, something — could easily have been 
   a return character or single space — was slipped into the excerpt fields of your
   MT posts. This would cause WordPress to use the excerpt instead of summarizing
   the post content on your archival pages.
 * If you have access to your database through a SQL tool of some sort, a quick 
   query that would solve this problem is:
 * `UPDATE wp_posts SET post_excerpt = '' WHERE post_excerpt NOT LIKE '';`
 * If using a different table prefix than the default (wp_), change the name of 
   wp_posts to reflect this.
 *  Thread Starter [tduncan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tduncan/)
 * (@tduncan)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-entry-text/#post-649356)
 * It’s been so long since I configured the original MT setup I forgot it even included
   an excerpt option… Anyway, it’s a return character. I wonder if it’s safe to 
   just remove that from the import files entirely, as we never used it…
 * I’m not quite sure where/how to edit the database, but I did swap out the_excerpt()
   with the_content(), at least for the moment. And I know what to look for in those
   other themes. Thanks!

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