Excerpt View

use the_excerpt() function instead of the_content() function. Edit your index.php for this change.

Sorry, but I’m a novice – could you walk me through step by step what I need to do? I’ve looked at my index.php file, but am not quite sure what or how to change it. Thanks.

All depends on how your theme is coded if you can paste the theme index.php file in https://wordpress.pastebin.com and paste the url here so that can help where exactly you need to make the change.

It’s not too difficult, but yeah if you wanted to post the coding like govpatel explained, I’m sure someone could help.

The index.php file is that of your themes and is typically located at /wp-content/themes/<insert-theme-name>/index.php.

Hi, thanks for your help. The theme is Oulipo and I’ve uploaded the index.php file here: https://pastebin.com/Sc1PEwSX

In line 18 change the_content to the_excerpt

Hi, thanks for your help. I think I’ve made the changes correctly but the full posts are still displaying on my front page. Here is the code now: https://pastebin.com/L4fptqxC

Have I done something wrong?

Is there any way you can post your url so we can see

Here you go: https://www.wavecomposition.com/

Are you using a post or a page when you created that article.

A post

how did you make the changes?

in ‘dashboard’ ‘appearance’ ‘editor’ – selected ‘Main Index Template’ (index.php), edited, and then pressed the ‘update file’ button?

or locally on your computer and the ftp the edited file back into its original location?

can you check, using the first method, if the changes really are in your theme?

Hey, that’s solved it – I did it by FTP, but for whatever reason the changes were not registering on the site. Thanks for all your help everyone!

You are welcome