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On my wordpress blog on the front page it shows the WHOLE article there, whereas i want it to show a snippet so they click on the article to another page.
www.completefootball.com < this is what i mean, how do i change it to show like a couple of hundred words instead of the whole thing?

 

In your themes main index file you will need to replace the_content() with the_excerpt

 

When you do that, you may also want to go through and do the same to the theme's category.php and archive.php files. These are the templates that display the Category, Tag and Date pages and you'll probably want to do the same for those.

Hope this helps,
-drmike

 

hmm, i tried what you said. is there anyway to get it a bit longer?

 

Not with the function.

If you need more control, please consider using the 'more' tag.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

Code (markup):

Be real careful with that as last time I knew, it doesnt close html tags and could break your css.

 

if you want to adjust the length you can add the following to your themes functions.php file:

function new_excerpt_length($length) {
	return 20;
}
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');

Code (markup):

Replace the 20 with how many words you want to use.

 

thanks for that, wordpress is still new to me so tags like this are perfect

cheers

 

Anytime, I started learnin litle tricks like this to cut back on the amount of plugins I rly on. It all come swith time.