Title: Post Summaries
Last modified: August 18, 2016

---

# Post Summaries

 *  [amulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amulet/)
 * (@amulet)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-summaries/)
 * Is there a way for only the first X-number of words of a post to show, and then
   users would have to click a link to read the rest? I thought choosing “Summary”
   in Options would do that, but after looking at it again, it seems to only be 
   for “Syndication Feeds.” Thanks.

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-summaries/#post-260176)
 * the_excerpt() instead of the_content() or use the more tag in all posts if you
   want to use the_content().
 *  Thread Starter [amulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amulet/)
 * (@amulet)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-summaries/#post-260179)
 * That works, but is there an automatic way to do it, so that all posts stop at
   a certain number of words or the first paragraph or something, without having
   to put in the more tag? Thanks.
 *  [Joshua Sigar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphaoide/)
 * (@alphaoide)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-summaries/#post-260180)
 * Check out the following plugin.
    [http://guff.szub.net/the-excerpt-reloaded](http://guff.szub.net/the-excerpt-reloaded)
 *  Thread Starter [amulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amulet/)
 * (@amulet)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-summaries/#post-260188)
 * Cool! That looks like it’ll do just what I need! Thanks!

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

The topic ‘Post Summaries’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [limit](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/limit/)
 * [summaries](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/summaries/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [amulet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amulet/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-summaries/#post-260188)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics