Length of Posts on WP Homepage

by Kurt

Posted: 14 years ago 5 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

How do you control the length of the posts as they appear on the homepage in WordPress?

By default, an entire "recent" post is displayed on the homepage. Is it possible to only display the first 75 (n) words on the homepage?

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thecableguy 14 years ago

Just Google homepage excerpts wordpress plugin and you'll find a bunch of them. I'm using
Homepage Excerpts Wordpress Plugin

Once you activate it just click on it to set the length.

You can also try searching for plugins from your dashboard.
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- bgmacaw 14 years ago
  
  It depends on if your theme supports excerpts correctly, some do, some don't.
  
  You can use the -more- tag to mark where you want to split out the excerpt from the post. This is kind of the old way of doing things. The newer way is to use the excerpt panel on the post edit page to put in unique text.
  
  I use a plugin called Advanced Excerpt that allows me to enter images and other HTML codes into the excerpt on a number of my sites.
  
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  AndyBeard 14 years ago
  
  For defining the content within an excerpt I either use a custom excerpt or Fancy Excerpt Plugin For WordPress
  
  Then I have custom fucntions to do other stuff with the way it gets displayed on a page
  
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Leslie B 14 years ago

I use the evermore plugin to show only excerpts on the homepage. It basically replaces having to add the more-tag manually to your blog posts. If I only show the excerpts I will show 25 posts on the homepage, you can change that in your reading settings. When I show the full posts, I never go above 10.

There are themes that automatically will only show an excerpt, like the Studiopress themes and the Woo themes, for those, of course, you don't need a plugin to take care of it.
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~kev~ 14 years ago

When your typing up the article, just insert the "read more" break - its a button in the visual editor. It looks like a small box on top of a larger box.
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Length of Posts on WP Homepage

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