Display excerpts on category pages

First, try settings->reading and change from “full” to “summary”. If that doesn’t fix it, then how are you with PHP coding?

It is set to “summary” yet continues to show full. I can change code if someone tells me what to replace and where . . .

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I still have not figured out how to fix this. The “search” feature displays excepts, but the category pages display full posts, and I want them to display a list of excerpts. Can anyone help please?

Here is the content.php code

<?php
/**
* The default template for displaying content
*
* Used for both single and index/archive/search.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Fourteen
* @since Twenty Fourteen 1.0
*/
?>

<article id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>” <?php post_class(); ?>>
<?php twentyfourteen_post_thumbnail(); ?>

<header class=”entry-header”>
<?php if ( in_array( ‘category’, get_object_taxonomies( get_post_type() ) ) && twentyfourteen_categorized_blog() ) : ?>
<div class=”entry-meta”>
<span class=”cat-links”><?php echo get_the_category_list( _x( ‘, ‘, ‘Used between list items, there is a space after the comma.’, ‘twentyfourteen’ ) ); ?></span>
</div>
<?php
endif;

if ( is_single() ) :
the_title( ‘<h1 class=”entry-title”>’, ‘</h1>’ );
else :
the_title( ‘<h1 class=”entry-title”>‘, ‘</h1>’ );
endif;
?>

<div class=”entry-meta”>
<?php
if ( ‘post’ == get_post_type() )
twentyfourteen_posted_on();

if ( ! post_password_required() && ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) ) :
?>
<span class=”comments-link”><?php comments_popup_link( __( ‘Leave a comment’, ‘twentyfourteen’ ), __( ‘1 Comment’, ‘twentyfourteen’ ), __( ‘% Comments’, ‘twentyfourteen’ ) ); ?></span>
<?php
endif;

edit_post_link( __( ‘Edit’, ‘twentyfourteen’ ), ‘<span class=”edit-link”>’, ‘</span>’ );
?>
</div><!– .entry-meta –>
</header><!– .entry-header –>

<?php if ( is_search() ) : ?>
<div class=”entry-summary”>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div><!– .entry-summary –>
<?php else : ?>
<div class=”entry-content”>
<?php
/* translators: %s: Name of current post */
the_content( sprintf(
__( ‘Continue reading %s <span class=”meta-nav”>→</span>’, ‘twentyfourteen’ ),
the_title( ‘<span class=”screen-reader-text”>’, ‘</span>’, false )
) );

wp_link_pages( array(
‘before’ => ‘<div class=”page-links”><span class=”page-links-title”>’ . __( ‘Pages:’, ‘twentyfourteen’ ) . ‘</span>’,
‘after’ => ‘</div>’,
‘link_before’ => ‘<span>’,
‘link_after’ => ‘</span>’,
) );
?>
</div><!– .entry-content –>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php the_tags( ‘<footer class=”entry-meta”><span class=”tag-links”>’, ”, ‘</span></footer>’ ); ?>
</article><!– #post-## –>

Still haven’t figures this one out, would really appreciate some help! Thank you

Use the_excerpt() instead of the_content()

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/functions/the_excerpt/

I looked for that to replace it, but in the content.php or category.php code there is no instance of the_content()

The “search” feature works fine, and results are displayed by excerpt, but the “category” results still show full articles

I can see the_content in the code you pasted above! Dig through the template files. It’s there, somewhere.

Ok I see the_content (in the content.php code I pasted above) but when I replace that with the_excerpt it doesn’t change, the category pages still show all full posts

Ok nevermind, when I load the page with a clear cache it did work! Thank you for your time helping me see what I was overlooking