Title: Short Summary’s
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Short Summary’s

 *  [ameilius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ameilius/)
 * (@ameilius)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-summarys/)
 * is there a way to display just like a snippet of the article instead of the entire
   topic – to limit the size of the main page?
 * when i post a new topic – or blog – it shows the entire article… can i set it
   somewhere or easily add a feature to my custom layout to do this?

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-summarys/#post-501159)
 * Couple ways:
 * 1. Replace [the_content()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content)
   with [the_excerpt()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt) in
   your template(s).
 * 2. Use the ‘more’ quicktag in your posts:
 *  [http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More](http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More)
 *  [mreda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mreda/)
 * (@mreda)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-summarys/#post-501507)
 * the easy way to limit the length of the summary is by inserting the <!–more–>(
   just as it is) command in your posts where you would like the summary to stop.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-summarys/#post-501507)
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