Post excerpts

Here’s how I did it. Open content.php and at around line 47 you’ll find this:

<?php if ( is_search() ) : ?>

Simply change to:

<?php if ( is_search() || is_home() ) : ?>

And hopefully it should work.

I’ve done this, and it does display the excerpt on the home page, but I wanted to limit the excerpt to 4o words and to have a read more link after the excerpt. I’ve done this in other themes in the past, but it’s not working in twenty fourteen.

Wondering if that means excerpts are set up differently with this theme. Here’s the code I’m using – any help is appreciated – this is in my child theme’s functions.php file:

function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
	return 40;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

function change_excerpt_more()
{
	function new_excerpt_more( $more ) {
		return ' <a class="read-more" href="'. get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) . '">READ MORE</a>';
		}
	add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more' );
}
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'change_excerpt_more');