Home page blog posts don't show full post text

Hey, try leaving the post page setting in appearance > reading to blank. Let me know if that changes anything.

Hannah

hi,
I did it. No changes.

current settings:
– reading: front page: latest news [set as blog template], post page: blank

in other posts, they suggested to replace the_excerpt() function with the_content() function.

Yet I cannot locate this in any of my source pages, including the index.php

Some say that it is located in loop.php. I can’t see a source document with this name either.

Are these two things available within the default Virtue theme?

Hey,
So if you want your home page to show your post with all the content you actually need to make the front page your latest post page.. not a static page.

then in the theme options > home layout: make sure “page content” is enabled and “latest posts” is disabled.

Then Scroll to the bottom and make sure “Latest Post Display” is set to full.

Kadence Themes

OK – switched to Latest Posts, enabled page content and disabled latest posts. Then set latest post display to full…
Now I see posts in full text. That’s good. BUT now I have bigger problems, such as:

1) In the home layout section, despite that I selected a certain post categories to be shown, it keeps showing all the latest posts regardless of their category. The filtering is not functioning…

2) The home page title is now changed to “latest posts”. However, I want it to be “latest news”.

How can I fix these now?

1. You can’t select a category because it’s the main loop. Where as the latest post model is only a custom loop that only shows excerpts when you switch to use the page content and the main latest posts it will always show the latest posts.

Your only work around would be to make some of your posts sticky so they showed up first.

2. Since your not using a static page your page title section defaults to “latest posts”. You can remove the page title section from enabled or edit the theme files to change the default for the latest posts page. The template is in the theme/lib/utils.php line 60.

Kadence Themes

ok, 2nd problem is solved….
but 1st one is really worrying….

There are so many irrelevant posts that are not ‘news’, and they don’t need to be on the front page.

Okay, lets make this simpler:
all I want is, to make only a certain category posts to be visible on the home page. And with full text.

How can I do this? There must be a way….

The easiest way is to make your news posts sticky.

Or you can add a custom function as outlined here: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/one-category-wordpress-homepage/

Else you can delete the front-page.php from the theme folder, then use a static page with the blog template. Just to be clear though, if you delete font-page.php it will remove the slider options from your home page and it will mean that with every update you have to re-delete the file.

Your only other option is to build a child theme with a custom font-page.php

Kadence Themes

Or you can add a custom function as outlined here: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/one-category-wordpress-homepage/

This is exactly what I was expecting you to provide me. and it WORKED! ??

I switched to latest posts, then added the custom function code to function.php to filter the categories that I want them to be seen on the homepage. Now homepage shows only the category(ies) I wanted and in full text.

Then I removed the page title section from enabled or edit the theme files to change the default for the latest posts page. The template is in the theme/lib/utils.php line 60.

Thank you!

I switched to latest posts, then added the custom function code to function.php to filter the categories that I want them to be seen on the homepage. Now homepage shows only the category(ies) I wanted and in full text.

I noticed that ‘continued’ link was added at the end of the posts, despite they are full text posts; not summaries. Those links should only appear in summary posts….

here is the homepage: https://www.f-ire.com

How can I fix this in the code?

what would you suggest?

Hey f-irecollective, In theme options > home layout at the bottom of the page try setting Latest Post Display to full.
Hope that’s what you were looking for!
Hannah

f-irecollective,
In your post, make sure you don’t have a
<- read more ->

at the bottom of the post.

Kadence Themes

In your post, make sure you don’t have a
<- read more ->

ah, sure thing!
Thank you!! ??

Just the solution I was looking for, thanks again to f-irecollective for raising the question and to the Kadence Themes Member for the Function.php tip.