jabberwock67

That is basically what I did– created a duplicate content.php– for my page with posts.
Thanks.

The problem with this solution is that I want the_excerpt to show on one type of page and the_content to show on another type of page– where you are using the same template for multiple types of pages.

I have found my solution by creating a new template and another template_part to use instead of content.php that contains code I found elsewhere on the web. It ain’t pretty but it works.

I had originally copied your code from content.php to my newcontent.php, which is where I experienced the blank page. Yet when I copied the new code into newcontent.php, it worked. I can’t figure out why this happened.

I thought that a better solution could have been achieved with another conditional statement in your template and this might be something to consider for future releases of this theme.

I understand about the “Read more” tag, but that won’t allow me to use custom excerpts.

Basically, what I desire is to have a custom page– like your example of a blog archive page with pagination– only I want to format the posts differently than they appear on the single posts page: ie title in a smaller font, custom excerpt, thumbnail/featured image.

I have attempted to create a new custom template, but I’ve run into roadblocks such as the page not displaying at all. I know that in the right hands this is much easier than I am making it…