All my posts are being published as excerpts

  • Resolved james brown

    (@james-brown)


    14 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    I am fairly new to WordPress. I set one up with no problem but on my second one all my posts are being published as excerpts. I have set a home page with a long letter and it looks great. But when I click on a post to see what it looks like, it just shows up like this:

    and so you can […] How do I set it so that my posts are published fully. I don’t understand the use of excerpts and do not plan to use them although while searching my problem, i see others use them

    I am using wordpress 2.9.2

    Thanks
    James

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  • the way posts are shown is determined by your theme.

    the theme files may have the_excerpt() in most places (and most php files) where you would prefer to have the_content().

    you could work your way through the theme files and replace the code.

    Hi James

    Have you checked the ‘reading’ settings on the dashboard?

    You can choose ‘full text’ or ‘summary’.

    Failing that, I guess it’s something in the theme. Are you using a custom theme, or a default one?

    Cheers
    Chris

    Hi,

    You need to edit index.php as well as single.php/page.php file in your theme and find this code:

    the_excerpt()

    Replace with:

    the_content()

    Thanks,

    Shane G.

    Thread Starter james brown

    (@james-brown)

    Hi,

    I am using a custom theme that I uploaded from wordpress. My reading is set at full text.

    I guess I will have to try and find the theme files and try what alchmyth has suggested. I will let you know how I do.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter james brown

    (@james-brown)

    Hi Everyone,

    I really appreciate your comments. It turns out it was the theme, that was causing the problem. As I slammed with projects, I decided to switch to the default theme for the time being.

    I can always go back and change it later.

    Thanks again, you saved me a lot of time, i was going to go back and review the tutorials I use to build my sites but I know the answer wouldn’t have been there.
    Regards,
    James

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