Showing excerpt v. full post

  • I swear this happens on every WordPress site I work on, and it’s always the same:

    How do I show only the excerpt of a post on (in this case, the home page contains all recent posts) the blog page?

    I go to Admin > Reading and under “For each article in a feed, show:” I check “Summary.” Is that the right place or not?

    Something like this cannot require me to go in and start fiddling with code, I cannot imagine.

    A little frustrated, thank you for any guidance…. I can provide further details just ask.
    Thank you

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  • Is that the right place or not?

    No – that’s for your RSS feed. Try editing the index.php template file and replacing <?php the_content();?> with <?php the_excerpt();?>

    Thread Starter Chris

    (@forumusr)

    Ok thank you. “<?php the_content();?>” is not in the main index file, but I’ll fish around for it in the other page files.

    I am baffled – task requires searching around php code? It seems very simple to require that. Thank goodness I have a modest understanding of php from various other troubleshooting, but for the total layperson, they are supposed to search around and edit code? I thought WordPress was supposed to make it easier for the backend admin of a blog…

    :). I find this baffling for such a sample task… Anyway I’ll look around. Thanks.

    Thread Starter Chris

    (@forumusr)

    I think in the theme I am using it could be in a number of places, this is going to take some work I guess.

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