Categories- How to list all the titles instead of all the posts?

Study this:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/the_excerpt

Thank you!

Where do I change this code? In archive.php??

In category.php replace <?php the_content(); ?>
with
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

Richarduk, that can’t be correct. <?php the_content(); ?> doesn’t exist in category.php

Richarduk, after doing a little research, I discovered that some templates have the_content in their category.php file. My apologies.

Unfortunately, my template, TripleK2, appears to use theloop.php for this, which greatly limits my ability to customize without delving into more involved hacks.

I know

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I’m working on a really simple theme that anyone can understand, because a lot of themes and style sheets are beautifully crafted but virtually impossible to reverse engineer.

Believe me when I say the blogging world will certainly appreciate your new theme.

I’m afraid your theme won’t be done in time to save me, but I will mention what I’d like anyway because I’m sure others are also looking for this:

1. Three columns.
2. When you click on an archive date, you get full content (I think this is already the default, so read on).
3. When you click on a category, you get excerpts because my category pages would be huge and unruly otherwise.
4. At the end of a excerpt it says “more…” and links to the rest of the article.

Better yet, while I’m dreaming, a theme where you can pick your number of columns and how they lay out; and a choice between full content or excerpts on date and category pages.

Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to take my limited knowledge of PHP and try to hack out something that comes close to what I’m looking for.