Post to display only a “snippet”? Possible?

  • Hi all,

    The WP installation is on my test site at https://www.chrisbartlett.net/bi3/workshops/

    As you can see, I basically only have one post so far. Now, I am building this site for a friend’s non-profit and the reason I’ve used WP is so they can post their own content without bugging me constantly to do it statically. And they are thrilled about this. But here’s my issue (what they want)…

    Obviously, you see the whole “knitters” post. If you click the title you go to the single post page. Duh. Basically I want to keep it all the same, except that on the main WP page, I only want to display to the end of “When: Friday, November 7th & Saturday, November 8th, 2008“. Then you would obviously be at the entire post…

    Does that make sense?

    In other words, if they make a huge post (like this “knitters” one, I only want a snippet displayed, then have a link for the user to click in order to get the entire post.

    Is this possible in the built-in admin? If not, is there a way to hack the code to do it? I’d appreciate any help.

    Thanks!

    Chris

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  • Thread Starter WorldBuilder

    (@worldbuilder)

    OK, I’ve been playing a little and the one thing that strikes me quickly is “Pages”… I have no experience with Pages.

    Would this work?

    • Create a Page with the exact display I (they) want.
    • Create a Post That is, in essence, nothing more than a
      title and a link to that Page.

    Now I just did this on the very blog I linked to above. But on the site itself, there is no mention of Pages, and like I said, this is all new to me. I need to understand it before I can train them on it. So now that I’ve created the Page, how do i get to it (other than “View” from the admin panel)? In my hacking of the php files, have I inadvertently removed the pages section? What php file(s) would it be in?

    I think this’ll work if i can effectively learn it…

    Chris

    STOP!
    theres already a built in function for this. in your post, set your cursor where you want to cut off the post, and click the ‘more’ tag. it will split your post and add a link to read more.

    here, i made a visual for you

    https://skitch.com/bewmedia/ed1b/more-tag

    Thread Starter WorldBuilder

    (@worldbuilder)

    PERFECT!!!!! Wow! It’s so… SIMPLE!

    Learn somethin’ new every day… ?? Thanks!

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