Summary Does Not Work

In your template (index.php) do you see <?php the_excerpt(); ?> near your “the_content()” tag?

the_excerpt tag will offer a snippet (excerpt) of text from a post and depending on your theme, a “more” link underneath for viewers to click to read the whole post in its entirety as a single post view.

PS: I found this via “view source”

<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana" /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana">Stability</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana"><br /> on the same page.

You have double, even triple embedded code that duplicates the same thing. I only copied one line, but it continues on.. and on…

You’ll need to fix it.

Yea, I tried to download an excerpt plugin. It doesn’t work.

I have tried to delete some of that garbage, but it would not let me… Kept saying error and would not save.

Fixed the HTML, but still need some sort of excerpt.

I am trying to use this plugin: https://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the-excerpt-reloaded/
Everything left at default, its uploaded and activated.
The problem (I think) may lie where I placed this (or didn’t place it) in the loop.

the_excerpt_reloaded()

Where should it go?

You don’t need a plugin.

Just insert <?php ($post->post_excerpt != "")? the_excerpt() : the_content(); ?> in place of your <?php the_content(); ?> and it will provide the excerpt on your page.

You’ll need to copy/page a snippet from your post body and insert into the excerpt section of the write post part.

Does that make sense? Sorry, you’ll need to make the changes in your index.php template. ??

As for cleaning that embedded stuff, here’s my take on it.

Open your post in Admin/Post
select all your post content
copy then delete the post content only (don’t save & don’t close out)
paste your post (that you copied) into notepad or some plain text editor.
manually remove all that embedded stuff
select
copy
paste back into the empty post content section
save
check

it should work.

Alright, that may work… Is there any way for a “more” link or something??? That way people will know there is more…

After cleaning up that stuff it works, are you just saying from now on?

I at least know from now on to not copy from Word…

Don’t copy from Word. If you HAVE TO; paste the document into a plain text editor like Notepad, save and then re-open and copy/paste into your wordpress Post.

There is a difference c/p from a plain text editor as opposed to pasting from Microsoft Word. So, in essence, you can still c/p – just not from Word DIRECTLY into your wordpress.

As for excerpts, you can do this a number of ways.

Plugins
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugins/Posts_Formatting.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugins/Posts_Miscellaneous

Or, if your theme accommodates it; you can have something like this:

<div class="entry">
<?php ($post->post_excerpt != "")? the_excerpt() : the_content(); ?>
<p class="info"><?php if ($post->post_excerpt != "") { ?><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" class="more">Continue Reading</a><?php } ?><?php comments_popup_link('Add comment', '1 Comment', '% Comments', 'commentlink', ''); ?>

Most themes have this option somewhere. Styling it is CSS driven.

Yep, that excerpt I told you about is listed in those pages that you linked to.

Where would I stick that code at?? Even some text that says “Full Article Here” down by the “X Comments” would be fine.

Bump.