Most recent post home page and only excerpts w/thumb on category / archive

hi@ clever_name

For the category/archive page issue
please go to content-single.php inside templates-parts folder you could find the_content on line 22 over there,repalce that with the_excerpt.

Thanks

Hi tsuzan and thank you for your speedy reply.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t solve my problem.

Updating the content-single.php file does return an excerpt on a single post page like this:

Single Post

I still want single posts to display the content of the post on single pages, not the excerpts.

As you can see, the category and archive pages still show the full content here:

Category
OR THIS
Archive

I want to instead show a list of excerpts of posts in that respective category or archive, not the full post content like it currently does.

Any ideas on how to achieve this?

Thank you for your help!

I’ve been looking through the files for the_content and see a lot of the_post has this syntax changed?

Everywhere I look has the “easy” solution of changing “the_content” to “the_excerpt” in the loop. This is the loop I keep finding on all of my pages. Am I missing something?

<?php
			// Start the Loop.
			while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

				/*
				 * Include the Post-Format-specific template for the content.
				 * If you want to override this in a child theme, then include a file
				 * called content-___.php (where ___ is the Post Format name) and that will be used instead.
				 */
				get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', get_post_format() );

			// End the loop.
			endwhile;

I found this article:

https://daext.com/display-the-excerpt-in-the-twenty-sixteen-homepage-and-archive-pages/

Using this method I am able to show excerpts on all of my post controlled pages:

front page or homepage
archive pages
category pages

This is great, now I need to show JUST THE 1st most recent post FULL CONTENT on the homepage/front page. I cannot do this in customizer as it changes the amount of post excerpts also. I need the post excerpts to show 6 per page and the homepage to show the content and only 1 post. I hope this makes sense.

Can anyone help with this?

In case anyone is trying to do this here is my final step!

So I used the steps in my prior post linking to that article about showing just the excerpts. THEN:

Create a page template front-page.php

<?php
/*
Template Name: Homepage
*/
?>

<?get_header(); ?>

	<div id="primary" class="content-area">
		<main id="main" class="site-main" role="main">

<?php
 $postslist = get_posts('numberposts=1');
 foreach ($postslist as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
        <div class="post"><h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_content() ?>
</div>
<?php endforeach ?>

		</main><!-- .site-main -->
	</div><!-- .content-area -->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Switch in Reading Settings to use a static FrontPage and select this template.

Resolved.