Title: Using the post excerpt/summary functionality
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Using the post excerpt/summary functionality

 *  [nyhotdogman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nyhotdogman/)
 * (@nyhotdogman)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-post-excerptsummary-functionality/)
 * Hi there,
 * firstly: Great and beautiful theme! One of the best free ones out there, very
   very nicely done!
 * I have a quick question: Is it possible to use the post excerpt function for 
   the posts displayed in the categories? I am not talking about just showing the
   first couple of sentences of the actual post (I know this works with the “read
   more” tag), but actually displaying a summary for each post (which in wordpress
   can be added via the excerpt box beneath the acutal post content). Other themes
   support this function by simply replacing “post_content()” with “post_excerpt()”…
   but I did not find this in the files anywhere here.
 * Perhaps you could let me know.
 * Thanks a lot!
    Peter

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 *  Thread Starter [nyhotdogman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nyhotdogman/)
 * (@nyhotdogman)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-post-excerptsummary-functionality/#post-3156172)
 * oops. I was looking for the wrong string – it of course is “the_content”.
 * I did find it and was able to edit it – but unfortunately the images are then
   now shown anymore…neither on the categories not in the posts. In content. php,
   line 45 I replaced
 * <?php the_content(‘Continue reading’); ?>
 * with
 * <?php the_excerpt(‘Continue reading’); ?>
 * Tahanks a lot,
    Peter
 *  Thread Starter [nyhotdogman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nyhotdogman/)
 * (@nyhotdogman)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-post-excerptsummary-functionality/#post-3156183)
 * Another update:
 * When doing the change above, then the actual post content is not shwon in the
   post page anymore…instead just the excerpt.
 * So is there a way to show the excerpt in the categories and the post content 
   in the post pages? Or can the theme not handle this?
 * Thanks,
    Peter
 *  [marweis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marweis/)
 * (@marweis)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-post-excerptsummary-functionality/#post-3156366)
 * Anyone resolve this? I would also like the home page posts to be a summary with
   main image…
 *  [marweis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marweis/)
 * (@marweis)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the-post-excerptsummary-functionality/#post-3156367)
 * Never mind, I was able to use the “more tag” (button next to spell check when
   editing the post) to make it look how I want.

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