Avoiding post summaries in category page for a podcast site

Ask the theme authors whether there’s an option to show full content on archive pages:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/theme/clean-journal

If not, make a child theme and change where it uses the_excerpt to use the_content.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

Thank you, Steve! I’ll do that.

Just a placeholder pending a reply from the Clean-Journal creators… there is no “the_excerpt” anywhere in archive.php, and there is no category.php file at all. The code where I’d guess it would be found is:

<?php /* Start the Loop */ ?>
			<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

				<?php
					/* Include the Post-Format-specific template for the content.
					 * If you want to override this in a child theme, then include a file
					 * called content-___.php (where ___ is the Post Format name) and that will be used instead.
					 */
					get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() );
				?>

			<?php endwhile; ?>

…and this is where I completely lose the thread in terms of how modern WordPress coding works.

It’s in content.php or content-page.php. Install the plugin “show current template” to see what template files are used to render a page.

This is well beyond my ability to understand — the template with the plugin is archive.php, but there’s no “the_excerpt” or “the_content” in that file. It also calls the following…

themes/clean-journal-child/functions.php
themes/clean-journal/content.php
themes/clean-journal/footer.php
themes/clean-journal/functions.php
themes/clean-journal/header.php
themes/clean-journal/inc/clean-journal-breadcrumb.php
themes/clean-journal/inc/clean-journal-core.php
themes/clean-journal/inc/clean-journal-custom-header.php
themes/clean-journal/inc/clean-journal-default-options.php
themes/clean-journal/inc/clean-journal-featured-content.php
themes/clean-journal/inc/clean-journal-featured-slider.php
themes/clean-journal/inc/clean-journal-menus.php
themes/clean-journal/inc/clean-journal-metabox.php
themes/clean-journal/inc/clean-journal-social-icons.php
themes/clean-journal/inc/clean-journal-structure.php
themes/clean-journal/inc/clean-journal-widgets.php
themes/clean-journal/inc/customizer-includes/clean-journal-customizer-active-callbacks.php
themes/clean-journal/inc/customizer-includes/clean-journal-customizer-sanitize-functions.php
themes/clean-journal/inc/customizer-includes/clean-journal-customizer.php
themes/clean-journal/searchform.php
themes/clean-journal/sidebar-footer.php
themes/clean-journal/sidebar.php

When I search the directory for “the_excerpt,” it appears in

clean-journal-core.php
clean-journal-featured-content.php
clean-journal-featured-slider.php
content.php

In content.php, the only use of the_excerpt seems to be for search results:

if ( is_search() || 'full-content' != $options['content_layout'] ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search and if 'full-content' is not selected ?>
				<div class="entry-summary">
					<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
				</div><!-- .entry-summary -->
			<?php else : ?>
				<div class="entry-content">
					<?php the_content(); ?>
					<?php
						wp_link_pages( array(
							'before' => '<div class="page-links"><span class="pages">' . __( 'Pages:', 'clean-journal' ) . '</span>',
							'after'  => '</div>',
							'link_before' 	=> '<span>',
		                    'link_after'   	=> '</span>',
						) );
					?>
				</div><!-- .entry-content -->
			<?php endif; ?>

…and there’s only one “the_excerpt” in -core, and it is actually part of a bigger variable name. I’ve put the core file here:

https://dumptext.com/wZqqCGqS

and to my (not very good at this) eyes, it looks like maybe the excerpt is determined by a function instead of by the_excerpt?

Please wait for a response from the theme devs.