Some context might help to understand why this is an issue: it’s not for my blog, but for a little venture I’ve come up with by sort of hacking bits of WP apart to make it do what I want it to. (I just think WP is hands down the most flexible app I’ve ever worked with.)
I’m using it to maintain a directory of businesses, with expanded listings for each one, and I’ve got the site set up to bypass index.php almost completely, except for hitting search with nothing in it. (And I do want to comment that yes, I’m SURE that there are people out there who do this. I’ve worked with the public far too long to doubt this.) Since index.php shows me whole entries instead of the excerpt, this was a problem.
While I was responding to this to answer these questions, I answered my own dilemma by realizing that was really the issue, and so now I’ve changed index.php to show the excerpt rather than the entire entry, and voila! problem solved.
So thanks — you guys helped me get an answer by asking me why I’m crazy. ??
