How to Switch from Full Posts to Summaries

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    (@clocksaysnow)


    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    Using the Twenty Sixteen theme, I’d like summaries of my most recent posts to appear on my website’s homepage. To accomplish that, I went to Settings>Reading, and I clicked “Summary.” But I’m still getting the entire content of each of my posts showing up on my homepage, not summaries of those posts. How do I get summaries of my posts instead of the full posts to show up on my homepage? Under Reading>Your Homepage Displays, I’ve clicked “Your Latest Posts.”

    Thanks!

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  • I have the same issue.

    My home page shows the excerpt and the full post, but I would like to only show the excerpt.

    Having both showing is a waste, especially as many of my excerpts are the first part of the full post, hence it duplicates content.

    I have managed to find a way to only show an automatic excerpt, using the info at https://www.matrudev.com/post/twenty-sixteen-summary-excerpt/
    But this only works if I haven’t made a manual excerpt. Where I have created manual excerpts, it still shows those first with an automatic excerpt immediately after.

    A bulk delete of all my manual excerpts does appear to be one option, although a bit extreme. I might look into how to do that, on 2,000 posts.

    Anyone have any solutions?

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