Title: Page with Posts Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Page with Posts * Resolved [jabberwock67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jabberwock67/) * (@jabberwock67) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-with-posts-2/) * First of all, thank-you for such an outstanding theme. * For single posts, I want to display the individual posts in their entirety (ie“ the_content”…not “the_excerpt”) * However, on the “Posts” page, I want to display the excerpt plus the thumbnail for 5 or 10 posts per page. * Trying different bits of code from different websites hasn’t been successful in accomplishing what I want to accomplish. * And adding a new template file to the theme has been frustrating. I want to format the posts on the “posts” page differently than single posts. * Can you either: 1) Let me know what files to add / edit to accomplish this?, or 2) Possibly add this functionality to your theme (free for the community or for a price to be negotiated) * Thanks again Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Theme Author [Anthony Hortin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahortin/) * (@ahortin) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-with-posts-2/#post-5013479) * On the Single posts page, such as [this post on my demo site](http://demo.quarktheme.com/readability-test/), it displays the whole content as you can see (ie. it uses the_content() ). * I presume that the “Posts” page that you’re referring to, is the blog archive page (eg. [this page](http://demo.quarktheme.com/blog/)) * This archive page also uses the_content(). By default it will show the whole post content. If you don’t want to show the whole post though, simply add a ‘ Read More’ tag into your content so that it only displays the content up to this tag. * As you can see on my [demo site](http://demo.quarktheme.com/blog/), the blog page is simply showing part of the post content, along with a “Continue reading” link. It does this because the post has a “Read More” tag in the content. * Thread Starter [jabberwock67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jabberwock67/) * (@jabberwock67) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-with-posts-2/#post-5013483) * I understand about the “Read more” tag, but that won’t allow me to use custom excerpts. * Basically, what I desire is to have a custom page– like your example of a blog archive page with pagination– only I want to format the posts differently than they appear on the single posts page: ie title in a smaller font, custom excerpt, thumbnail/featured image. * I have attempted to create a new custom template, but I’ve run into roadblocks such as the page not displaying at all. I know that in the right hands this is much easier than I am making it… * Theme Author [Anthony Hortin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahortin/) * (@ahortin) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-with-posts-2/#post-5013543) * If you’ve got an issue with the page not dsplaying at all, it’s most likely because you’ve introduced a PHP error in your template. * If you want to display the custom excerpt field, rather than the main content, all you should have to do is change the following line from within content.php * ``` →', 'quark' ), array( 'span' => array( 'class' => array() ) ) ) ); ?> ``` * with this… * ``` →', 'quark' ), array( 'span' => array( 'class' => array() ) ) ) ); ?> } ``` * Thread Starter [jabberwock67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jabberwock67/) * (@jabberwock67) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-with-posts-2/#post-5013554) * The problem with this solution is that I want the_excerpt to show on one type of page and the_content to show on another type of page– where you are using the same template for multiple types of pages. * I have found my solution by creating a new template and another template_part to use instead of content.php that contains code I found elsewhere on the web. It ain’t pretty but it works. * I had originally copied your code from content.php to my newcontent.php, which is where I experienced the blank page. Yet when I copied the new code into newcontent. php, it worked. I can’t figure out why this happened. * I thought that a better solution could have been achieved with another conditional statement in your template and this might be something to consider for future releases of this theme. * Theme Author [Anthony Hortin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahortin/) * (@ahortin) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-with-posts-2/#post-5013555) * If you want the Single Posts page to be different than the archive page, then I suggest that you duplicate content.php (call it content-single.php). * Then, in single.php change the `get_template_part()` call so that it looks like… * ``` ``` * Thread Starter [jabberwock67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jabberwock67/) * (@jabberwock67) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-with-posts-2/#post-5013564) * That is basically what I did– created a duplicate content.php– for my page with posts. Thanks. 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