excerpt or post summaries

my blog can’t seem to create excerpt or summary of the blog on home page. it shows entire post. I’m using default theme. There’s no 55 word limit option. Manual excerpt under advanced mode does not work neither.

please help, thansk

https://www.eclipsevolleyballclub.com/blog/

doc4
Member
Posted 4 days ago #

mrdanzhang,

I haven’t thoroughly looked into this but the alternative is to use the limit-post plugin. You can download it here: https://www.doc4design.com/plugins/limit-post/. This will give you more control over the length of the excerpt and this version also provides the additional option of printing the excerpt without markup.

mrdanzhang
Member
Posted 1 second ago # Edit

Hi,

Thanks for help. I downloaded and activated the plugin, but how to actually utilize it? below is instruction, where and how to replace “_content()”? Does it mean to change the plug-in’s code? even after that, will posts automatically be suppressed or user have to manually make excerpts somehow?

Sorry fairly new to blogs. just trying to shorten posts to summaries to make blog easier to read.

thanks much!

Log-in to the WordPress administration panel and visit the Plugins page.
Locate the Limit Post plugin and click on the activate link.
Replace the_content(); with the_content_limit(200, “continue…”); or
Replace the_content(); with get_the_content_limit(200, “continue…”);