Replacing ‘the_content()’ with ‘the_excerpt()’

  • djsflynn

    (@djsflynn)


    19 years, 2 months ago

    I’m looking for a way to give each post on the main page a short ‘teaser’ intro which doesn’t appear on the individual post page (rather than replicate the story’s first par on both pages).

    Apparently the trick is to replace ‘the_content()’ with ‘the_excerpt()’, but in exactly which file do I find that ‘the_content()’ string in order to make this change appear on the main page only?

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  • ghanshyamgadhiya

    (@ghanshyamgadhiya)

    19 years, 2 months ago

    try to put in index.php on line no.14 :-).
    bcoz index.php is main page. while single.php is detail page.

    Thread Starter djsflynn

    (@djsflynn)

    19 years, 2 months ago

    Ah, will do – many thanks for your patience with a total code novice!

    Thread Starter djsflynn

    (@djsflynn)

    19 years, 1 month ago

    Alas, that didn’t work – I’m using the Giraffe 2 template (from Urban Giraffe, http://www.urbangiraffe.com), but despite finding the only instance in the index.php file of ‘the_content()’ and replacing it with ‘the_excerpt(), nothing entered into the excerpt box appears on the front page – it shows only whatever is in the story box itself… :<

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