Title: summary Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # summary * Resolved [yugolancer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yugolancer/) * (@yugolancer) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-2-2/) * How do i set that only beginning of the post is shown to the home page ??? * I need only a few phrases visible on the home page and when you click the title you can see the entire post. * Thanks! Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/) * (@stvwlf) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-2-2/#post-1090242) * in the theme template used on your home page (usually home.php or index.php) find `the_content( ....... )` * and change it to `the_excerpt()` (with nothing between the parentheses) * Thread Starter [yugolancer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yugolancer/) * (@yugolancer) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-2-2/#post-1090338) * Ok but how do i set it so that only posts with Excerpt provided appear with summary. The other posts without excerpt should be not affected appearing on the home page as are (UNTOUCHED/ENTIRELY) * Thanks * Thread Starter [yugolancer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yugolancer/) * (@yugolancer) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-2-2/#post-1090341) * I found it .. using is just what i want! COOL Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘summary’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [summary](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/summary/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [yugolancer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yugolancer/) * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-2-2/#post-1090341) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics