Short blurb of every post

  • Hi,

    I am new to WP and have, what I think is, a very basic question.

    One of the pages on my WP site has a ton of posts. When my users view this page I’d like them to only the see the title of the post and at most a few sentences from the beginning of that post so that they can quickly scan all of the posts without scrolling down forever.

    I’ve looked for plugins which do this but I don’t think I’m searching for the right terms.

    Any help would be much appreciated.

    Thanks in advance,
    Cat

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  • What kind of page is this? Your main posts page? A category page? A tag Page? An archive page?

    Thread Starter catxtwo

    (@catxtwo)

    Hi esmi,

    Thank you for your response. It is going to be my main posts page.

    Cat

    You will need to amend your main posts loop – possibly in your theme’s index.php template file – and replace <?php the_content();?> with <?php excerpt();?>. Possibly via a child theme.

    Thread Starter catxtwo

    (@catxtwo)

    Thanks. Is there any way to edit my index.php without using ftp and a text editor? I don’t see index.php listed in the “Edit Themes” area.

    Thanks again!

    Are you sure you have the right theme selected? What theme are you using and where did you download it from?

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