Looking for where something is WP file to change on my site

It’s generated by the_excerpt(), which your theme is using when in archive or category view. You can modify this by editing the archive.php (and possibly category.php) of your theme. If you’d like to change how the_excerpt() behaves, you’ll have to do some editing of the source.

I actually have a plugin that provides enhancements to the_excerpt():

https://guff.szub.net/the-excerpt-reloaded/

I’m currently planning an update to it, so if you have suggestions…

The excerpt-reloaded plugin is great, but if you want simple:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Customizing_the_Read_More

Hey, nothing wrong with simple.

Nothing wrong with brilliant plugins either! ??

I tried the “the_content()” tag but it doesn’t have a variable for how many words before the end. Unless I put a tag in every post for it to stop at that’s a little to tedious for me.

I’ll try the plugin and see if that can do what I want I just want the […] clickable but I could also put a comment at the top of the page to click on the titles to view the full article.

What you do is click the “more” quicktag button at the “stopping” place in your post where you want the “continue reading” to show up. Otherwise, the entire post will show up.

If you replace the_content() with the_excerpt(), it forces the first 120 words (or to the <!--more--> tag) to only show. OR it will show the excerpt if you type it in the explicit Excerpt text box above the Edit text box on your Write Post screen.

Or use the plugin and let it do whatever you want.

Thanks the-excerpt-reloaded did just the trick. I realized I was missing a style for the .entry div so I fixed 2 problems all at once. in any event it’s fixed and up. If you want to take a look. I added padding fixes for IE 6 and IE 5.5 but haven’t test them yet if you using those browsers.