Title: Summary plugin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Summary plugin

 *  [redwind1337](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redwind1337/)
 * (@redwind1337)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-plugin-1/)
 * I was looking for a plugin that would summarize posts on the main page and then
   link to the full post
 * I am sure there is something like this but I have had no luck finding it

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 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-plugin-1/#post-729722)
 * By “summarize,” do you mean “show excerpts of”? If so, you can make your theme
   do this fairly easily.
 * Edit your theme’s `home.php` file, or if it doesn’t exist, copy your theme’s `
   index.php` as `home.php` and edit `home.php` using a text editor. Find and replace`
   the_content(` with `the_excerpt(`, and you will be all set.
 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-plugin-1/#post-729723)
 * There are also several [excerpt plugins](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=excerpt)
   available with the advantage that you don’t have to edit files and change them
   back if you decide to do things another way AND you can make excerpts longer 
   or shorter than 35 words (which includes html). I use advance excerpt myself.
 * Of course you can also just use the `more` tag when you are wriging a post.
 *  [kizze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kizze/)
 * (@kizze)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-plugin-1/#post-730027)
 * the
 * “Edit your theme’s home.php file, or if it doesn’t exist, copy your theme’s index.
   php as home.php and edit home.php using a text editor. Find and replace the_content(
   with the_excerpt(, and you will be all set.”
 * Was just what I was looking for thanks. Perfect.
 * you can see how it summarizes at [http://www.poorwomanswords.com](http://www.poorwomanswords.com)

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