Title: Show post summery
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Show post summery

 *  Resolved [lobsterman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lobsterman/)
 * (@lobsterman)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-post-summery/)
 * i would like WP to show only the summery of the posts, and then link to the full
   posts, is this possible?

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 *  [Joshua Sigar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphaoide/)
 * (@alphaoide)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-post-summery/#post-243087)
 * The post excerpt is generated wth the following template tag
    `<?php the_excerpt();?
   >`
 * The link to full post is generated with the following template tag
    `<?php the_permalink();?
   >`
 *  Thread Starter [lobsterman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lobsterman/)
 * (@lobsterman)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-post-summery/#post-243089)
 * Thanks!!!

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 * Last reply from: [lobsterman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lobsterman/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-post-summery/#post-243089)
 * Status: resolved

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