Using the post excerpt/summary functionality

  • Hi there,

    firstly: Great and beautiful theme! One of the best free ones out there, very very nicely done!

    I have a quick question: Is it possible to use the post excerpt function for the posts displayed in the categories? I am not talking about just showing the first couple of sentences of the actual post (I know this works with the “read more” tag), but actually displaying a summary for each post (which in wordpress can be added via the excerpt box beneath the acutal post content). Other themes support this function by simply replacing “post_content()” with “post_excerpt()”…but I did not find this in the files anywhere here.

    Perhaps you could let me know.

    Thanks a lot!
    Peter

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  • Thread Starter nyhotdogman

    (@nyhotdogman)

    oops. I was looking for the wrong string – it of course is “the_content”.

    I did find it and was able to edit it – but unfortunately the images are then now shown anymore…neither on the categories not in the posts. In content. php, line 45 I replaced

    <?php the_content(‘Continue reading’); ?>

    with

    <?php the_excerpt(‘Continue reading’); ?>

    Tahanks a lot,
    Peter

    Thread Starter nyhotdogman

    (@nyhotdogman)

    Another update:

    When doing the change above, then the actual post content is not shwon in the post page anymore…instead just the excerpt.

    So is there a way to show the excerpt in the categories and the post content in the post pages? Or can the theme not handle this?

    Thanks,
    Peter

    Anyone resolve this? I would also like the home page posts to be a summary with main image…

    Never mind, I was able to use the “more tag” (button next to spell check when editing the post) to make it look how I want.

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