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Another WP Question

by sportsfan54
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I was working on a post for my website and after I completed it I put in the tags and categorized it.

Then I went to my site and I clicked on the post title in the category section and there was a problem.

It just showed the first paragraph(well most of it) and I was thinking were is the rest??

This is an example of what it looked like,

gfsdgfddghdhfdhfdhhfhfgghj
hjhfgfhfgdthfghdfhdfhfdhdh
fghfghgfgfhgfhgfhfghfghgh
fghfghggfh. The [...]

So what is with the [...] part and wheres the rest of my post?

The same thing happens when I click on the article post tag in my tags section.
#question
  • Profile picture of the author theentry
    It is showing only the excerpt of the post
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    • Profile picture of the author sportsfan54
      What does excerpt of the post mean?

      If someone clicks on a category I want them to see the whole post. So what do I do?
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  • Profile picture of the author medint
    hello,it is showing excerpt of the post.
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    • Profile picture of the author nealh
      Hello,

      The way the post is displayed depends on the theme you are using. Obviously your theme defaults to cutting the post down to an excerpt. This means you need to change coding in the template files.

      You need to find something similar to this...

      <div class="entry">
      <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
      <?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
      </div>

      and change it to....

      <div class="entry">
      <?php the_content(); ?>
      <?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
      </div>

      The multi-post displaying template files to change may include:

      * index.php
      * archives.php
      * archive.php
      * category.php
      * search.php

      Do NOT change it in your single.php or page.php, if you have them in your Theme, as that will force only the excerpt and not the full content to show up on these single post views of your blog.

      These files can be changed by locating the "editor" section in the "appearance" tab. If you cannot save the files its because the file permissions aren't set to write, so change them to 0777 using your ftp client.

      Hope this helps.

      Regards,
      Neal.
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      • Profile picture of the author mmoconnor
        Or use a theme that lets you choose whether to display an excerpt or a full post. Atalhuapa lets you choose, but it also lets you choose 1,000 other things too, so it may seem overwhelming to you at first. Don't let that intimidate you!

        You kind of need to make a choice between being forced to fit into someone else's template or to do the work to make (or customize) your own.

        I like atalhuapa because it is (free and) attractive out of the box while also being very easily customizable. You can kind of grow into it. Start with the defaults and as you learn more you can change them. They also have a super responsive and very newbie tolerant forum where you can get a quick reply to your questions.

        Good luck with your blog! Post a link to we can see your progress.
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        • Profile picture of the author sportsfan54
          I'll probably just mess around with the html because I really like the template I'm using. It took me 4 hours of searching to find the right template I liked for my site so I'm not changing it
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      • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
        Originally Posted by nealh View Post

        These files can be changed by locating the "editor" section in the "appearance" tab. If you cannot save the files its because the file permissions aren't set to write, so change them to 0777 using your ftp client.
        Never do that!

        Most people will NEVER change it back from 0666 (which is the world writable option for file; 777 is for folders!) to 644 - and they leave their blogs wide open for hackers.
        666/777 = world writable = which means just that: THE WHOLE WORLD (i.e. any hacker kid) can over-write your files!

        And next day you are back here crying that your blog has been hacked.

        Learn to use a FTP client (like FileZilla; it's free) and get a simple editor (like PSPad; also free) and learn to edit your template files on your machine.

        It ismple:
        - download the file
        - open for editing
        - do whatever you have to do
        - save and upload back

        Another advantage: you can (and should) always have a backup copy of all your template files, so if your editing went wrong, just upload the original file.

        WARNING: the online editor gizmo does NOT have an Undo button if you screwed up your template files
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