bnrepiano

Thanks for your advice.
Sorry, no it didn’t work. Still reverts back to the theme’s 404.php
Brian

I second that request ??

I have a long list of events down the left hand side of my page and the right and side is empty. It doesn’t look good.

Thanks

Thanks Matt.

I don’t know what you mean by a contributed theme, but I found the answer by following the link you kindly gave.

Brian

Augustin56. Thank you. That worked!

No, Augustin, I forgot about the !important statement. Thanks for reminding me I’ll try in a few moments.

Songdogtech – I’m using Weaver II Pro.

Thanks for your input!

Brian

I have found a plugin called Post Teaser. It does more or less what I want, except that it doesn’t suppress images like WordPress search does.

It will do for now unless anyone is kind enough to help me through the images thing…

thanks ??

Esmi – thank you.

The situation – in case it’s of use to anyone else – is that CURL and OpenSSL need to be activated in PHP on the hosting server. In my case I had to switch from a Windows base to Linux. I don’t know why these items were activated in Linux and not Windows. Ho humm… but it works now ??

Brian

Sorry this one has just confused me.

1. It says If you have set your WordPress site to display post excerpts. Well I haven’t set it to do that yet. It’s what I want to achieve.

2. Another instruction is replacing the template tag the_content() with the_excerpt(). What is a template tag and where do I find it? I found <?php the_content() ?> in three files. I changed all of them to <?php the_excerpt() ?> but it made no difference.

3. The codex article also refers to Administration > Write > Post SubPanel but that does not exist. I have Administration > Post SubPanel but cannot marry that up with the text.

Grateful for further help. Thanks

Thanks

Thanks t-p but this is a new installation and no plug-ins are activated. ??