How to display as summaries and READ MORE link?

  • NORTH

    (@north)


    19 years ago

    In Admin>Options>Reading there is an option under Syndication Feeds “For each article, show: Summary or Full Text”.

    Is there an option like this for the blog posts themselves? I tend to have LONG blog posts, that I would like summarized, with a READ MORE link.

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  • mylagoon

    (@mylagoon)

    Replace <?php the_content(); ?> with <?php the_excerpt(); ?> in index.php of your theme.

    Thread Starter NORTH

    (@north)

    WHOA! Nice… I would have never found that. Thanks!

    Problem is… it now only shows the first 5 lines or so, which is not quite enough to hook them into the article.

    Any way to crank this up to 15 or 20 lines?

    -NORTH

    Thread Starter NORTH

    (@north)

    I also notice this kills the image, which doesn’t work for what I’m trying to do. My idea is to have a nice intro article of 20 lines with an image.. and THEN provide a READ MORE link.

    Am I asking for too much? Seems to me many would love this idea.

    -NORTH

    Thread Starter NORTH

    (@north)

    Sorry, one final point on this cool thread. The “excerpt” tag doesn’t quite put a READ MORE link, instead it puts […] at the end of the text, BUT IT ISN’T A LINK! So there is no way to get to the rest of the article.

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    NORTH, check out my plugin for an *enhanced* version of the_excerpt():

    https://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the-excerpt-reloaded/

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