How to shorten my posts?

  • Resolved Hurricane1

    (@hurricane1)


    12 years, 10 months ago

    Some of my posts are long, over 500 words, and I would like to shorten them on my Home page. However, I can’t find any feature on my dashboard to engage a ‘More’ feature.

    My website is https://www.acornbbs.com . The theme is Panorama 2.1 by Themocracy.

    Question: does this theme accommodate my wishes, or am I stuck with these long posts on my Home page. (I know that I can write shorter posts!). If it does can you show me how to do this?

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  • In your wysiwyg editor editor, there is an icon in the top row. The 4rth one from the right. It looks like a piece of paper cut in half.
    If you insert that in your post, wherever you want, it will create the read more for you.

    Otherwise, if you want them all to be a certain way, you will need to edit the theme.

    Open up the index.php and on line 25, you’ll see this:
    <?php the_content(__('Continue reading','panorama') . ' '' . get_the_title('', '', false) . ''&raquo;'); ?>

    change that to <?php the excerpt();?>

    Now if the theme gets updated though, you will loose that change…. so the first option is best.

    Thread Starter Hurricane1

    (@hurricane1)

    Hi Christine…and thanks you! I really should have been able to figure that one out on my own, don’t ya think?

    One other point…this gives me the following wording art the More break…”Continue reading” then the blog post title, such as ‘Are You Guilty of “Social NOTworking”?, which can be quite lengthy. Such as “Continue reading ‘Are You Guilty of “Social NOTworking”?”

    I favoutr the simple “Read More” link. Is there a way I can achieve this?

    Would appreciate it!

    In your index.php, you can change:

    <?php the_content(__('Continue reading','panorama') . ' '' . get_the_title('', '', false) . ''&raquo;'); ?>

    to

    <?php the_content(__('Read more','panorama'); ?>

    That should do it.

    Thread Starter Hurricane1

    (@hurricane1)

    Christine…thank you! I appreciate it!

    Thread Starter Hurricane1

    (@hurricane1)

    Christine: Now…I must declare that I’m a total novice when it comes to code. I followed your instructions: went to my index.php file; cut <?php the_content(__(‘Continue reading’,’panorama’) . ‘ ” . get_the_title(”, ”, false) . ”»’); ?> ; pasted <?php the_content(__(‘Read more’,’panorama’); ?>

    And now…my website is down. when I try to logon, I get this…
    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /nas01/HostingVol1/02/45402/acornbbs.com/dac_wordpress/wp-content/themes/panorama/index.php on line 25

    I need this website and I need you help! Please!!!

    Oops, forgot a parentheses.

    <?php the_content(__(‘Read more’,’panorama’)); ?>

    Thread Starter Hurricane1

    (@hurricane1)

    If you only knew the vortex of blind panic that i fell into.

    Anyway…it’s gone and everything seems OK in my world.

    Many thanks!

    Sorry about that.. I really should have paid more attention… Glad to see your site back up and looking good.

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