All my post content is appearing as excerpt!? Can anyone help?

  • Resolved ralexander

    (@ralexander)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hi All,

    I downloaded a premium theme yesterday for a new site i’m trying to create and every time i try to publish a blog post i noticed i was limited to 55 words, no formatting and no images.

    It took me literally a whole Sunday to figure out that all of my article is being treated as an excerpt and not as the main content (I’m new to this!)

    Interestingly there is a separate post area for specifically adding an excerpt, and when you put anything in that, the main content text disappears as this seems to overrule it?

    I’m really out of my depth with this, but i have a feeling there is something amiss with the code somewhere – I would be so so grateful if someone could point me in the right direction to getting this fixed. (I’m now familiar with the WP dashboard and have some basic HTML/CSS knowledge.)

    I hope my explanation made sense to someone, thanks for reading ??

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  • Sounds like you have the_excerpt() in your index.php file. That causes wp to use whatever you enter in the “Excerpt” sub field as the excerpt, if you don’t put anything in there then wp uses the first 55 words of your post as the excerpt.

    You can change it to the_content() then add the <!--more--> tag in your post where you want the excerpt to end. This will give you more control over your excerpt without having to enter the same text twice.

    Here is the Codex for using the <!–more–> tag.

    Thread Starter ralexander

    (@ralexander)

    Thanks so much for giving me that tip Fish!

    So i tried it and now on the front page it gives me the content instead of an excerpt. So that works ??

    The problem is that when i click on ‘read more’ the content is again limited to 55 words with no formatting – so it goes back to being an excerpt!?

    I can feel we are getting close though!!

    When you click on “Read More…” it should load the complete post.

    Did you replace the code in the index.php file?

    It should look like this <?php the_content('Read More...'); ?>

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