Pier 38
Last night at the WordCamp party I was told by several people that I could switch the blog display from excerpting to full text. I think they were talking about the RSS feed, which is already doing that. I hope they are right in saying there is a way to change the blog presentation, or I may have to close down the site. Thanks in advance for help in the comments. We've changed the template in the meantime.
August 6th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
New theme, Steve, new theme.
August 6th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
If you’re talking the home page, open up your index.php in this default style folder (in the themes folder).
You’ll notice a tag that says ‘the_content’, change it to ‘the_excerpt’ (no quotes, just for reference)… this will now change your home page only to show an excerpt, not the full text. Feel free to email me if you have any questions:)
Side notation: By default wordpress inserts it’s own excerpt - but you do have options. One being the option area below your image upload on a post page that says ‘excerpt’ where you can copy/paste in your own excerpt. Another is a nice little plugin called Post Teaser http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/PostTeaser that will be automated, but allow you to have some other automatic options wordpress doesn’t do by default.