Front page doesn’t display summary of posts (only full text)!

Try using the <!–more–> tag in your posts at the point where you want the post’s content to stop displaying on the front page. The settings you refer to are for the RSS feed only – not the posts display.

replace
<?php the_content(); ?>
with
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
in either your theme’s home.php (if you have one) or your index.php

You are both great!!!!
Both solution worked!

MANY THANKS GUYS!!!!!!!!!!

what if my theme lacks a home.php? can i add one?

i want to display summaries on archive pages, but full-text on the home page. currently, i get summaries on both.

my theme has archivepage.php and archive.php

if you want full text on your home page, just change the_exerpt to the_content in index.php (unless you have some sort of custom template page as a home page….if your homepage shows all your newest posts, you are probably not using a custom template)

my index.php contains the_content, but i’m still getting just the excerpts.

i tried adding the following inside the loop, which i found in the codex:

global $more;    // Declare global $more (before the loop).
$more = 1;       // Set (inside the loop) to display all content, including text below more.
the_content();

now i am getting the text content of the posts, but not the images in the posts.

my goal is very simple: to display 1 sticky post on my homepage. i don’t care whether the homepage is:

• a Page, with a function or tag which displays 1 post (which should be the sticky automatically)
• or, the standard blog homepage, set to show just 1 post (which should be the sticky automatically)
• or, the standard blog set to show stickies only. I tried inserted this into the loop:
  <?php query_posts(array('post__in'=>get_option('sticky_posts'))); ?>
  which actually works great, but still no images.
• or, a Page, with a function or tag which explicitly displays 1 sticky