Use excerpt in posts

[Ole Benjamin Krussand]

Hi!
Is there possible to use excerpts in the blog posts. It would be nice if just a part of the different blog articles shows up when I go to the blog. Today it shows the whole text when I scroll down the different blog posts.

Thanks for help:)

[Bill Robbins]

Ole,

You can do that. One option is to is to use the “more” tag that’s part of the WordPress post editor. When you insert that tag, WordPress will place a more link in the archive view and all content after that will be visible only on the single post view.

The other option is to edit the theme just a bit. Here’s what to do there:

1. Go to the appearance section and select edit to open up the theme editor.
2. From the list of files on your right, choose archive.php and look for this spot:

   
   the_content(__('Read more', 'organizedthemes'))
   

3. Replace that with this:

   
   the_excerpt()
   

4. Save your changes

That will replace the full content in the archive view with the excerpt.

If you run into any trouble, just let me know,
Bill

[Ole Benjamin Krussand]

I tried both options and I think the “more” tag works well for us.

Thank you 🙂

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