Wordpress Post Blurbs

GuerrillaIM · 11-03-2009, 05:33 PM

On my wordpress theme the main posts page shows the entire post instead of just a blurb. Does anyone know how I can change this so it just shows an excerpt?

I went to control panel and added an excerpt to page but it added this to top of individual posts page.

Many thanks in advance. This is driving me nuts

sluggo · 11-03-2009, 05:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GuerrillaIM

On my wordpress theme the main posts page shows the entire post instead of just a blurb. Does anyone know how I can change this so it just shows an excerpt?

I went to control panel and added an excerpt to page but it added this to top of individual posts page.

Many thanks in advance. This is driving me nuts

Hopefully this will help.

Go to settings, click on "reading" and find "For each article in a feed, show". Change to summary, instead of full text.

This should solve your problem.

Good luck,

Sluggo

LynnM · 11-03-2009, 05:40 PM

Go to edit post, html view, put this piece of code where you want the excerpt to stop:

It will show up as "Read the rest of this entry" on the post.

Lynn

Istvan Horvath · 11-03-2009, 05:49 PM

@sluggo - that affects only the feeds, not the main page of the blog

@ LynnM - even in wysiwyg mod there is a "more" button; it means you have to edit all the existing posts or you should never forget to insert the more link when writing

If you want to really automate it - open the index.php file of your theme and find the_content template tag and replace it with the_excerpt
Warning! Read about the excerpt in the Codex - the tags strips all your html tags (formatting, images etc.) in the excerpt, so it might not be exactly what you are looking for.

GuerrillaIM · 11-03-2009, 05:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sluggo

Hopefully this will help.

Go to settings, click on "reading" and find "For each article in a feed, show". Change to summary, instead of full text.

This should solve your problem.

Good luck,

Sluggo

I already changed this setting but it didn't do anything.

Quote:

Originally Posted by LynnM

Go to edit post, html view, put this piece of code where you want the excerpt to stop:

It will show up as "Read the rest of this entry" on the post.

Lynn

Lynn, you are an absolute star!! This worked very well.

Is there a way I can enter new text that just shows up on the blurb? Reason is that I have a big buy now image and technical data at top of every post so I would rather write a description of the post or take text from another part of the page.

Many thanks again

Istvan Horvath · 11-03-2009, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GuerrillaIM

Is there a way I can enter new text that just shows up on the blurb?

Yep. Just do what I said (replace the_content with the_excerpt) and while writing a post... scroll down, and fill your new text in the Excerpt filed.

More: Excerpt WordPress Codex

jasonmorgan · 11-03-2009, 05:57 PM

you should have a box on your WP edit post page titled 'excerpt'. content added here should replace the default post content on the index page.

GuerrillaIM · 11-03-2009, 06:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

If you want to really automate it - open the index.php file of your theme and find the_content template tag and replace it with the_excerpt
Warning! Read about the excerpt in the Codex - the tags strips all your html tags (formatting, images etc.) in the excerpt, so it might not be exactly what you are looking for.

This worked perfectly, Thanks!

bgmacaw · 11-03-2009, 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

Warning! Read about the excerpt in the Codex - the tags strips all your html tags (formatting, images etc.) in the excerpt, so it might not be exactly what you are looking for.

You can use the Advanced Excerpt plugin to allow full HTML in the excerpts.

GuerrillaIM · 11-03-2009, 08:46 PM

thanks for help guys. I tweaked the template and added the plugin and now I have it looking exactly how I want it

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GuerrillaIM One Man Army War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: London, UK Posts: 904 Thanks: 25 Thanked 122 Times in 69 Posts	Re: Wordpress Post Blurbs thanks for help guys. I tweaked the template and added the plugin and now I have it looking exactly how I want it
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