categories: how to only show title, not excerpt

No, that code lists the category names in your sidebar.

You need to learn about Template_Hierarchy.
When you figured out wich template file is displaying your category archives… you will know which file you need to edit and you will delete the_excerpt template tag from it.

tks moshu, appreciate, but here’s a wp-dummy.

i got cats listed in archive.php and index.php – but which one to change how?

here’s the archive.php:

<div id=”contentleft”>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h1>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php the_content(__(‘Read more’));?><div style=”clear:both;”></div>
<div class=”postinfo”>
<?php the_time(‘F j, Y’); ?> | Filed Under <?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?> | <?php comments_popup_link(‘Leave a Comment’, ‘1 Comment’, ‘% Comments’); ?> <?php edit_post_link(‘(Edit)’, ”, ”); ?>
</div>

and here the index.php:

<div class=”postinfo”>
<?php the_time(‘F j, Y’); ?> | Filed Under <?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?> <?php edit_post_link(‘(Edit)’, ”, ”); ?>
</div>

many thanks in advance!

Go back and read that article again!

Also, you should NOT look for anything like category… I told you EXACTLY what to look for!
More reading: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Stepping_Into_Template_Tags

tks for the help moshu.

a most interesting thing happened;

found the code-to-be-deleted in archive.php:

<?php the_content(__(‘Read more’));?><div style=”clear:both;”></div>

when i delete the template tag, only the title’s permalink remained. what i wanted. but: the archive page got all messed up.

if i delete the whole code line, all categories in the archive disappeared (with the exception of the default category).

may it be that the “read more” plugin i am using is buggy?