Title: Summary Post
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Summary Post

 *  Resolved [hope4autism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hope4autism/)
 * (@hope4autism)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-post/)
 * I’m trying to change my home posts to excerpts only. I don’t see the loop.php
   folder at all and the index.php isn’t showing “the_content” for me to change 
   to “the_excerpt”.
 * Please help.

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 *  [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * (@paulwp)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-post/#post-3734447)
 * This is the `index.php` of the current version of this theme
    [http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/preference-lite/1.6.5/index.php](http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/preference-lite/1.6.5/index.php)
 * in that file, notice the loop here
 *     ```
       <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
       	<?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
       <?php endwhile; ?>
       ```
   
 * that `get_template_part()` will look for the `content-{postformat}.php` and use
   it when it matches the post, and defaults to just `content.php`
 * Here are the `content-{postformat}.php` files in that theme
 *     ```
       content-aside.php
       content-image.php
       content-none.php
       content-page.php
       content-quote.php
       content-single.php
       content-status.php
       content.php
       ```
   
 * You have to go over them and change `the_content()`, if found, to `the_excerpt()`,
   if you don’t use post format, just change the `content.php` one.
 * Also, all the modifications must be done in child theme only.
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 *  Theme Author [Styled Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gejay/)
 * (@gejay)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-post/#post-3734689)
 * Hi hope4autism…I wanted to follow up with Paulapxp’s reply and to see if you 
   were able to get the excerpts in place?

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 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-post/#post-3734689)
 * Status: resolved