How to Show Excerpt on Homepage
For wordpress users, a post has two type of length. they are the_content and the_excerpt. You must be know that the content has full content of post, while excerpt only has the summary of it.
Most bloggers want only summary or only excerpt of each post on their homepage to meka their blog has more magazine [...]
For wordpress users, a post has two type of length. they are the_content and the_excerpt. You must be know that the content has full content of post, while excerpt only has the summary of it.
Most bloggers want only summary or only excerpt of each post on their homepage to meka their blog has more magazine and clean view. To do it, you can manually edit the PHP on Admin Page:Theme/Appearance > Theme Editor tab However, there is a simple way to do it.
I introduce my recent plugin, it is called Auto Excerpt. You can download it on WordPress Plugin Directory. With this plugin, you can automatically show only excerpt of each post which contains only 413 characters on your homepage, author page, tag page, category page, search page, and archives. Pretty simple isn’t it?
However, if you prefer using manual PHP and have more faith on that way, you can follow:
- Login to DashBoard
- Open Appereance/Theme > Editor tab
- Click index.php or home.php
- Find up the php code
<?php the_content();?>
or
<?php the_content("read more content");?>; - Edit and replace it with:
<?php the_excerpt();?> - Repeat the steps for other page type you want to show only the excerpt, for example: archives.php for the Archive page.
- Don’t change <?php the_content();?> on single.php and page.php , you don’t want to shorten your words on the post URL don’t you ?
Anyways, those method can automatically be done just by using Auto Excerpt plugin for sure! 
Posted on excerpt, plugin, post, Wordpress
Great plugin. But, is it possible to take one single categorie out. I´ve got one post, that comes up with a picture and is fixed to the homepage of my blog. I would like to have the auto-excerpt effect with all posts, but that start-post.
Thanks a lot,
Christian
ok, i will try it
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Hello, is it possible to show pictures, too? The excerps don’t show any pics. thanks!
i am going to add some feature on the new version one
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