How to display a mix of excerpts and full text on homepage?

you could try:

<?php
if($post->post_excerpt) { the_excerpt(); }
else { the_content('read more...'); }
?>

OK. Where? And in place of what?

I can’t believe this has to be hacked in rather than just an out-of-the-box option in WordPress. Surely I can’t be the only person who would like to use an excerpt in some instances, and the full post in others?

I can’t believe this has to be hacked in

have you not done it before?

I had written a hack for it in earlier versions

so, what is different this time?

i am not saying that there is no other way of doing it; it is just the way i could think of just now.

the code goes in place of either <?php the_excerpt(); ?> or <?php the_content('read more...'); ?> – whatever is in your index.php (or the template file showing your home page)

have you not done it before?

As you already noted, I already answered that.

so, what is different this time?

The Twenty Ten theme is what’s different this time … and its loop.php file … and all of the code therein, which differs greatly from previous WordPress default themes. So I’m having trouble figuring out exactly where to put the hack.

And I still say this should be a simple Dashboard option instead of a hack.

knowing you are working with TwentyTwn makes iteasier:

in loop.php about line 130:

<?php if ( is_archive() || is_search() ) : // Only display excerpts for archives and search. ?>
			<div class="entry-summary">
				<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
			</div><!-- .entry-summary -->
	<?php else : ?>
			<div class="entry-content">
				<?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentyten' ) ); ?>
				<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-link">' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyten' ), 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>
			</div><!-- .entry-content -->
	<?php endif; ?>

Awesome. Thanks for the help.