making a blog shorter

  • Resolved zgj

    (@zgj)


    18 years, 2 months ago

    I want a blog on the front page to only sholw let’s say only the first 3 lines..then the rest people have to click on READ MORE….how do I do that?

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  • Open your theme’s index.php, find <?php the_content(); ?>, replace with <?php the_excerpt(); ?>.

    Or, for the sake of thoroughness, place <!--more--> where you want to break the post off with the read more link. I think the excerpt simply uses …

    Thread Starter zgj

    (@zgj)

    I did the method from vkaryl

    but i found something interesting

    <?php the_content(‘<!–more–>’); ?> <— it was like that (roughly), anywas I did the excerpt thing and it shows only the 7 first lines.

    just one last question, how do I change the # of lines it shows?

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