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Modifications & Custom Styles: Post Excerpts

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    • CommentAuthorwhatterz
    • CommentTimeJun 29th 2008
     
    I want to be able to display post excerpts on my home page (index.php) rather than the full post. How do I go about doing this? Does Tarski have a excerpts function, which will decide whather an excerpt exists otherwise display a defined number of characters of the main post?
    • CommentAuthorwhatterz
    • CommentTimeJun 29th 2008
     
    I've realised that nothing more complicated than the_excerpt() needs to be used, although it doesn't appear to be documented on the WordPress website (or at least any more).
    • CommentAuthordancanpost
    • CommentTimeOct 31st 2008
     
    I'm trying to do the same thing; replace my post content on the main page with the excerpt, but changing the code on the index.php page to "excerpt" seems to replace the content on the post page itself, rather than the main one? Any thoughts?
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    Try looking at loop.php instead.

    • CommentAuthorlemma54
    • CommentTimeAug 3rd 2009
     
    I have filled out the excerpt box on a number of my posts, and I have selected that a summary should be used “for each article in the feed," in the Reading section under the Settings tab. I was hoping this would mean that the excerpt summaries would appear instead of the full text in the archive and category sections, but they have not.

    I am using wordpress 2.8.2. Have I done something incorrectly, or is there a bug somewhere that needs a patch?
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    “For each article in the feed” means just that: in the site’s RSS and Atom feeds, not in the main posts. To display the excerpts in the post content, you’ll need to use a plugin. I ran one up that should work ok; you may want to add a pinch of additional styling via a custom stylesheet to differentiate excerpts from the body of the post.

    • CommentAuthortopspeed
    • CommentTimeMar 31st 2010
     
    I'm trying to do the same thing; replace my post content on the main page with the excerpt, but changing the code on the index.php page to "excerpt" seems to replace the content on the post page itself, rather than the main one? Any thoughts?

    http://methoo.com
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    Modify loop.php instead. This should be obvious from reading the code in index.php.

    • CommentAuthornicroy
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
     
    That plugin works great Ben, I'm trying to add to it a 'read more...' permalink to the excerpt when it is called...would I find that in the loop.php?
    Could I add it to the plugin itself?
    I'm just getting into php so any insight would be great

    btw my wife and I love your theme for our travel blog
    thx
    • CommentAuthornicroy
    • CommentTimeApr 29th 2010
     
    I kinda figured out a way to do this without using your plugin or messing with any php!
    It's already built into wordpress!

    for anyone who stumbles upon this problem just read this...
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More

    Basically adding the <!--more--> tag to the html of your post upon publishing will automatically publish the post excerpt with a read more tag!

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