Showing Excerpts On Your Front Page?//The Help Made It Worse!!

  • Hello. I just installed wordpress at https://www.capitolannex.com. However, the entire posts are showing on the front page, and I only want excerpts to show with a link to read more or whatever like most blogs I see.

    How do I accomplish this????

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  • try to find the_content() in the index.php

    replace it with the_excerpt()

    Let me know if it works.

    Thanks
    Sadish

    Thread Starter vincel

    (@vincel)

    That worked…now, how do I get it to show something so people know there is more to read???

    Thread Starter vincel

    (@vincel)

    WAIT! NO….that DID NOT WORK AT ALL. Now the rest of the post has dissappeared except for the excerpt. I click on the link to the post and nothing but the excerpt is there. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Now change it to

    the_content(‘Continue Reading’)

    .
    Then in each of your post, go to edit post.
    put the cursor on the end of first paragraph.
    click on the ‘more’ button that is above the text.

    then save the post.

    now go to the homepage and see if that works.

    thanks
    Sadish

    Thread Starter vincel

    (@vincel)

    Wait, change it BACK from

    the_content() (which I changed it back to after the problem) to the_excerpt() and then the_content(‘Continue Reading’)
    or just change the_content() to the_content(‘Continue Reading’)?

    whether you have the_excerpt or the_content, just change it to the_content(‘continue reading’).

    and do the above mentioned step on each post.

    Thanks

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