christianz

Allright, so after switching plugins on and off with identical index and single phps I located the source of all problems. YARRP (Yet another related post plugin) was causing the_content to display the_excerpt at the bottom of my posts. By deactivating the plugin everything went back to normal.

Now I only need to find another related post plugin that lets me style the list of the results.

Thanks alot for the hint on your second post Mike, I really appreciate the help you and others are offering here on www.remarpro.com.

best regards,
Christian

Hi Mike,

thats true, I used the <!– more –> tag to only display the headline on my index.php. Since I am a big fan of trial and error I set up the following experiment – I renamed my index.php to single.php and uploaded both. What happened is really weird. The excerpt does NOT show up below the post on the index.php but it DOES show up on the single.php. Keep in mind, both files are identical. It has either something to do with wordpress displaying excerpts by default on a the single.php or some crazy settings on my install.
Unfortunatly everyone who hast questions about the excerpt in wordpress is more concered with a solution on how to display it wich is kinda funny concidering my problem.

Anyways, I’ll investigate some more into that matter and keep this thread updated as I go if someone else ever runs into this problem.

Hey mfields.

I really appreciate your commitment. As I am trying to get started with wordpress and write my theme from scratch I naturaly have some plugins allready, none of wich would add the excerpt to anything though.

Anyways, I uploaded the single.php to pastebin and would be pleased if you could take a short look. Thanks again for your time.

https://wordpress.pastebin.com/ypbmpxLc

Thanks for your reply mfields, unfortunatly it didnt really apply to my situation, as I am using a manualy written excerpt for each article. All I am looking for is a way to toggle the display of the manual excerpt off for the_content in the loop.