[Theme: BlogoLife] Show only summary on home page

You know, did you look at index.php? I got carried away sadly and see that you wanted it only on the home page, which typically is built off of index.php.

Hello,

I was hoping the theme designer watches these threads, but will try to find him somehow else.

Yes, first I posted just on the home page, but mentioned later that actually all posts should be just showing a summary.

And yes, I tried the index.php.. couldn’t find anything there either.

But I won’t give up and once I do have a solution I will post it here.

I really appreciate you trying to help me. Thank You! ??

Sincerely
Carola

You are welcome and thanks in advance for posting the solution.

I too have noticed that you can’t just display a summary of your posts on the front page.

I’ve used the option under SETTINGS –> READING –> “For each article in a feed, show…” and selected “Summary“…

But it goes right on displaying the full post.

If anyone has any suggestions or even the same issue I would appreciate hearing about it.

Maybe it’s by design, but I’ve not noticed this anywhere.

Many thanks and sorry to jump on this post, but it seems to be the same issue as mine if I’m reading correctly.

Yes seems to be the same issue.. still have not found a way to just show summary at all.. hopefully the programmer will read this thread eventually and give us an idea ??

Happy 2012!

Yeah Fingers crossed! I keep going through my config (I’m no scripting guru) and hoping I’m not just being blind and missing some obvious option, but when I saw your post I felt somewhat relieved.

Hello,

Could we get an answer to this if at all possible? Please ??

Sincerely
Carola

I have a solution that I think works perfectly. You can see the result if you go to https://www.joakimstockman.com. When you see the steps you have to take it might sound more complicated than it is, but that’s only because I wanted to be super thorough in my explanation. It really doesn’t take more than 10 minutes all in all, and I think anyone will be able to follow these simple instructions.

Step 1.

Create a new page called “Home” (or what ever you want to name your homepage). Leave it completely blank except for the title.

Step 2.

Install the plug in “Pages Posts” by Rich Gubby. This plug in lets you automatically add posts to a specific page based on Category.

Step 3.

Go to the “Pages Posts” settings (found in “Settings”) and set up your new “Home” page to display posts from “All Categories”. Select to display “Excerpt only” in the setting “Excerpt or Full post”. Select the number of posts you want on your homepage and set to display as homepage.

Step 4.

Under Appearance -> Menus: Create a custom menu where your new “Home” page is the first page (if you want a traditional and user friendly top navigation) and select all the other pages you want as part of your top navigation and save it.

Step 5.
Under Appearance -> Menus: In the top left corner “Theme Locations” you select your newly created menu instead of the “WPLOOK Main Menu” and save. This replaces the default menu with your new custom menu.

Step 6.

Create a permananet (301) redirect from your domainname.ex to domainname.ex/home.

In my case I set the permanent redirect on https://www.joakimstockman.com so that all users immediately land on https://www.joakimstockman.com/home instead.

Hello joakimstockman,

I did mine a little different, but it certainly worked great ??

Thank you so much for posting the work-around!

Sincerely
Carola

Joakimstockman… Awesome man thanks! It took me a while at 0550am to get my head around it but I think I’ve cracked it!

It’s a shame that the site doesn’t just allow it, but i’m contented with the workaround for now.

Many thanks again buddy!

My site looks a little better now!

This worked on my theme LIND

Look for a post.php file.

Change:

<?php the_content('');

to

<?php the_excerpt('');

awesome fix, but i have this ” /> showing up at the top left of my site https://www.webtouchselling.com how can i remove this?

@webtouch, I like what you did to your homepage post teaser/excerpt. That is exactly what I want to do to my site but the plugin is not working properly. I got some strange error < *Error contact member…>.

Can you tell us how you did it?

I’ll really appreciate the help.

I too have worked through joakimstockman suggestions and tried a number of configurations but the summary is not working on the “home” page. I’m not getting any errors though. If anyone can come up with a solution that works in 3.3 please let us all know!