Title: Post appearances
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Post appearances

 *  [sbyf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sbyf/)
 * (@sbyf)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-appearances/)
 * how do you modify the posts that have been created so that only a portion of 
   each post shows witht he option to go to the whole post and comment — instead
   of whole of each post showing and requiring the reader to scroll and scroll ……

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 *  [flick07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flick07/)
 * (@flick07)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-appearances/#post-503628)
 * You’re after the `<?php the_excerpt() ?>` tag. You can see it used here:
 * `<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link 
   to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
    <?php the_excerpt()?
   > <div class="details"> <?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> at <?php the_time('g:i a');?
   > | <?php comments_popup_link('no comments;', '1 comment', '% comments'); ?> 
   |<br /> <?php the_category(', ') ?><br /><span class="read-on"><a href="<?php
   the_permalink() ?>">read on</a></span>
 * Go through your templates and just add the tag in where it normally says `<?php
   the_content(); ?>`
 * You can find a whole heap of useful tags here:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags)
 *  Thread Starter [sbyf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sbyf/)
 * (@sbyf)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-appearances/#post-503691)
 * flick07 — i hate to ask but I need to as I am learning – quicly — but learning—
   where will I actually find these template files to edit. I see in my dream weaver
   directory the wp-admin, content and incudes foldereach having several ph files
   in them
 * Am i looking for a particular std group of template files to change?
 *  [flick07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flick07/)
 * (@flick07)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-appearances/#post-503737)
 * Don’t apologise – no-one downloaded WP and knew what to do instantly. I’m still
   learning too.
 * Depending on what template you’re using, that’s the one you need to edit.
 * First, check which templates you’re using:
    In WP, goto Presentation. On that
   page it’ll say “Current Theme” (that’s the one we want to edit)
 * In Dreamweaver, find the folder that holds those particular template files. It
   should look like this:
 * wp-content > themes > (your template folder)
 * The two default themes for WP are Classic and Default.
    You’ll probably only 
   want to edit the Main Index template, as it sounds like you just want to edit
   the front page of your website.
 * Since you’re editing your original template files, make sure you back them up
   first (just copy the directory and save it I guess), just in case you accidentally
   make changes that you didn’t intend.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-appearances/#post-503737)
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