Excerpts Don’t Show up in home page

Two ways to do that – though they work in a different way.
1. You can always add manually – while writing the post – the <more> tag from the quicktags menu wherever you want to be break the text
2. You can replace the_content template tag with the_excerpt.
The second solution would mean the whole content would never be displayed on the pages that use the index.php template.
Be aware the_excerpt tag strips all the HTML markup. You should also know if you are not entering anything in the excerpt field when writing a post, WP will take automatically the first 120 words and displays them as “the excerpt”.

moshu – when I look at the Theme editor in my admin pages, I don’t see an “index.php” … I have:
post.php
author.php
profiles.php (something I’ve created that doesn’t work)

I also have a Main Index Template, which when I select it, it says I’m editing the Index.php … however …

I don’t see the_content in that code … here is the main part of that code (I think) ..

<?php if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<div class=”post”>
<?php require(‘post.php’); ?>
<?php comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template ?>
</div>

Any ideas? What I’m hoping to do is have the full post show up on the main page (I only display 1 day at a time) and then when sorted by category, show the_exerpt.

I also would like the_exerpt to show on my author.php, and then have all the posts for that author, but currently only the most recent post shows up (though it is the_exertp)

Sorry … that may be many questions under this one topic!

Check your post.php file, you should find the reference to the_content() in there ..

Yes … I do see the_content in post.php. Here is the code I have now:

<?php if(is_category() || is_archive()) { the_excerpt(); } else { the_content(); } ?>
<div class=”post-info”>
<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
</div>
<!–
<?php trackback_rdf(); ?>
–>
<div class=”post-footer”> </div>
</div>

This works correctly, EXCEPT would love to display every post (that fits the category) on this page, rather than the link to pages. I’ve taken out <?php wp_link_pages():?> but I still see “Next page” and only one post on each page (except author.php, where I only see one post with no “Next page” option)

To display the post itself and not the excerpt and link to the pages:

Change this:


<?php if(is_category() || is_archive()) { the_excerpt(); } else { the_content(); } ?>


to:


<?php the_content(); ?>


<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
has nothing to do with seeing the “Next Page”.
This template tag serves to “paginate” very long posts by inserting the <!--nextpage--> quicktag.

The “next..” “previous…” appear in any view if you have more posts than the number of posts set in Options > Reading.

Ok … I’m just sort of confused on this. Maybe if I tell you what I’d like, and you see my site, you might be able to tell me what needs adjusting:

I would like on the Home Page to see all the posts for that day. (this works correctly right now)

When searching by a category, I’d like to see excerpts of every post. (right now, it only works if the posts that share a category happened to be created on the same day)

When looking at the author.php, I’d like to see excerpts of every post. (right now, I have to click “Next Page” to see the next post).

I do have my Options >Reading set to Show at most 1 days … is this the culprit, and if so, how do I prevent all the posts from showing up on the home page?

I’m slowly figuring this out. I have adjusted Options>Reading to be Show 500 posts. Now everything works correctly except my Home Page (I see all the post).

I’m thinking somehow I need to use the Single-post.php for that page, by adjusting the templatae heirarchy or something like that.

Am I on the right track? I’m about 4 clicks away from getting my blog to looking exactly like I want it, so thanks for the help!

No, I am afraid you are not.
(Good to know though that 500 number to make sure I’ll avoid your site:)
Showing posts per day seems to have a bug.
For having different category views I always go by using Category_Templates.

You cannot use the single.php for home page. WP won’t let you do that.
If you want different number of posts on different views – you’ll have to use a plugin:
https://mattread.com/archives/2005/03/custom-query-string-plugin/
https://rephrase.net/miscellany/05/perpage.phps

Thanks … I just stumbled on those two plug ins in another thread, but I wasn’t sure if I can use them with WP2.0? Let me know if those plugins are safe to use, and I’ll be set!

As for showing at most 500, I get it now … reading options doesn’t limit the filter of the posts, it just shows x number of posts on that page, and then if there are more than that, gives you the “next page” link. (I adjusted to 5 posts, so you can visit my site! :))

I have installed the first plugin on a 2.0 and it works perfectly. Didn’t check to other one – yet.

Without the plugin (or specific query_posts use) the number of posts set in the Options applies to all views in WP.

Great … I went to Matt’s site for the plug in (CQS) and he has a version 2.6 which I installed … works PERFECTLY!

I’ve got it all doing just what I want … thanks for ALL your help!

Well, with the exception of what may be a farfetched dream … I would like to have a specific page (dynamic if possible) that lists all the authors and a link to the dynamic author.php. I’m looking for the exact same thing as I have in my sidebar (listing all the authors) but a dedicated page and I’d like it to link to an author even if they haven’t posted yet. You might see on my site a link at the top “Author” … that’s what I would link from