Read more but no Excerpt.

Hello,

Im currently building a simple blog for a friend. I use wordpress 4.0 and the SuevaFree theme. It has a built in function to enable an excerpt and a it adds a read more button.

But when i enable this, the blog still shows a full post. I changed this

<?php get_header(); ?>

<!-- start content -->

<div class="container">
    <div class="row" >

    <div class="pin-article span12 full" >

		<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

			<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) : ?>

                <div class="pin-container">
                    <?php the_post_thumbnail('blog'); ?>
                </div>

            <?php endif; ?>

            <article class="article">

                <h1 class="title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

                <div class="line"></div>

                <?php 

					the_excerpt();  

					wp_link_pages(); 

					if (suevafree_setting('suevafree_view_comments') == "on" ) :
						comments_template();
					endif;

				?>

            </article>

        <div style="clear:both"></div>

    </div>

	<?php endwhile; endif;?>

    </div>
</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

this is the page.php file

Where the_excerpt used to be the_content, But this doesn’t seem to work.

Any other suggestions?

Kind Regards