Category Page to have excerpts instead of full post

You have two different questions.
[A] “how to have the category pages to display only posts under that category”
[B] “with only excerpts showing up”

This is how I did it. You may try once if haven’t already

[A]

1. Create a page category.php in your theme’s root folder
2. Get category object from current category title

$cat_name = single_cat_title('', false);
$term = get_term_by('name', $cat_name, 'category');
$cat_id = $this_cat->term_id;

Get posts for above category id ($cat_id). Better way is to create a custom function in your functions.php file.

function get_posts_by_category_id($cat_id, $post_type, $records_per_page){
        $currentPage = get_query_var('paged');
        $args = array(
            'category' => $cat_id,
            'post_type' => $post_type,
            'paged' => $currentPage,
            'posts_per_page' => $records_per_page
        );
        $posts = get_posts($args);

        return $posts;
    }

[B]:

Now inside your category.php call the function from functions.php:

$posts = get_posts_by_category_id($cat_id, 'trips', 24);
<?php foreach($posts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?>
  <div>
    <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
    <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
  </div>
<?php endforeach;?>

Hope this helps!

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by Subrata Sarkar. Reason: Added code block
• This reply was modified 8 years ago by Subrata Sarkar. Reason: Removed wrong placement of php tag

Thank you for your response @subrataemfluence. I do not have technical knowledge, so could not understand how to ” Get category object from current category title”.

I can create a root file category.php, but rest is nightmare for me to do?