where I need to insert a code in the_loop?

I’m not sure what theme you are using, so without looking I can guess that wherever it says the_content in your theme you’ll want to replace that with the_excerpt_reloaded. If I know what theme you use I can suggest a much more accurate method.

actualy it should only be in the index.php file of what ever theme you are using. If you replace the_content in any of the other files, you might get only the short version when you expect the whole post.

-tg

Good point TechGnome, you should probably only be messing with index.php. There are other circumstances when you might want to be changing things in other files, but it doesn’t sound like your scenario needs this.

Hello,

Thank you for the replies.

However, my main index.php is something like this:

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>

… There’s really nowhere to insert this code. Or do you mean I need to insert it into the theme’s index.php? Sorry, I am real n00b… ??

The theme I’m using is cub-reporter.

Thank you again…

In the theme’s index.php you have the lines:

<div class=”storycontent”>
<?php the_content(__(‘(more…)’)); ?>
</div>

change it to:

<div class=”storycontent”>
<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(); ?>
</div>

Thank you, clarke1866! That helped… ?? Somewhat…

Now what I am getting is strangely behaving ‘more…’ link (when I press it, the article’s page is opened, but I still see the same excerpt). I suspected that this has something to do with the_excerpt_reloaded plugin, I’ve tried to hack it’s various variables, to no avail.

The exact variables I’m inserting are:

excerpt_length 100
allowedtags all
filter_type excerpt
use_more_link TRUE
more_link_text KEEP READING >>>
force_more_link FALSE
fakeit 1
fix_tags TRUE

The exact line is:

<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(100, 'all', 'excerpt', TRUE, 'KEEP READING >>>', FALSE, 1, TRUE); ?>

Hm…

Thanks for any help…

Stop! Before you go any further hacking you files…. do this: Look in the theme folder of the theme you are using… is there a single.php? If NOT… then make a copy of index.php and rename it single.php. Then open it up and edit it. Change the_excerpt_reloaded to the_content() (again, make sure you are doing this in the single.php file NOT index.php.
Save it, upload it, and then try it again.

-tg

TechGnome!!! All I could say is WOW!!! That sure made my day!!!

Thank you. Thank you! THANK YOU! T H A N K Y O U !!!

A.

Cool, I take it that it works now. I’ll mark this as resolved.

-tg

The loop is in page.php