Len

Yeah I’ve done it many times as that’s where all of my dev blogs are. What are you using? Xampp? Wamp? You may have to adjust the php.ini file.

@lenk WordPress.org is short for the self hosted WordPress Software and is a common term in the WordPress community. … so people who use this term are not referring to downloading the pages on http://wordpress.org, which would be closer to 15,000,000 rather than 1,000.

Uh, yeah I got that hence the 🙂

My attempt at a little humour which sometimes helps when people are frustrated. But thanks anyway. 🙂

Learning how to do something is half the fun. 🙂

I don’t know anything about the international versions of WordPress so if I’m wrong maybe someone can correct me. If your theme is not localized, meaning it didn’t come with a .po file, then you’ll have to go into your theme files and change it manually.

You might also want to subscribe to the official WordPress Blog. It usually (always?) lists the changesets.

There’s a few ways to go about this.

1. Learn to customize the Read More
2. Use the_excerpt() rather than the_content()
3. Use a plugin

Personally I use option #2. For reference here is how. Open whatever template file is used to display your home page – it will be either home.php or index.php and replace the the_content() with the_excerpt(). By default, WordPress will pull the first 55 characters from your post when using the_excerpt(). If you want to adjust that then insert the following into your theme’s functions.php file …

remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'custom_trim_excerpt');

function custom_trim_excerpt($text) { // Fakes an excerpt if needed
global $post;
if ( '' == $text ) {
$text = get_the_content('');
$text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
$text = strip_tags($text);
$excerpt_length = x;
$words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
array_pop($words);
array_push($words, '...');
$text = implode(' ', $words);
}
}
return $text;
}

Adjust the line $excerpt_length = x; to whatever you want. OR …. when using the_excerpt() you can also include your own hand crafted summaries. Beneath the “write post” window you will see a box that says “Excerpt”. You can insert whatever you want in there and that will be displayed on the home page. Here is a screen shot.

More reading:
– Customizing the Read More
– the_content()
– the_excerpt()

If it’s a blog hosted at wordpress.COM head over there. If it’s a self-hosted WP blog there is nothing anyone here can do about it. Try contacting the author directly. Or the host.