Title: Summary function not working
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Summary function not working

 *  [dagger234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dagger234/)
 * (@dagger234)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-function-not-working/)
 * I’m using a custom theme, and can’t get the posts to show only summaries, instead
   they show the full post. I’ve researched this topic, but the index.php file shows
   <?php the_excerpt(); ?>. Any thoughts?

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 * [excerpts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/excerpts/)
 * [full posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/full-posts/)
 * [summary](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/summary/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [dagger234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dagger234/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-function-not-working/)
 * Status: not resolved

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