Wordpress custom work

I am customizing a theme for wordpress to match my current site. I am using starkers naked theme located here: http://starkerstheme.com/. I am wondering if someone can help me make the index page show the excerpt of all the posts instead of the content. I have edited both loop.php and index.php with no luck. Thanks.

 

instead of the_content();

use the_excerpt();

Hope this helps..

 

LOL, that seems to be a great solution for most themes. This naked theme I am using doesnt have that. Here is what is has:

get_header(); ?>
<div class="frontpage">

<?php
get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' );
?>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thanks for any help!

 

I was going to give an answer to your question now as well, but seems like you have zero knowledge about Wordpress themes and instead of typing a "LOL" ask where it could be ? But you lost it..

 

I put lol because after all the searching and edits that I have done, it made me laugh (tried it in every loop and it isnt in index). It wasnt an insult, I do apologize. Thanks for your time, hopefully someone knows a quick answer.

 

So I got it working now. For any one who is creating a wordpress theme from scratch and are using the starkers "naked theme", here is what I did to make the home page show the excerpt instead of the entire article:

<?php

/* This is the new loop to display a featured story.
* It creates a variable and then loads all the posts that match the query.
*/

$my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=Featured Story&showposts=1');

/* Now it loops through the results and displays the content.
*/

while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;

/* We load the Page ID in to a variable to check for duplicates later on
* Then it displays the title as a working link with formatting to
* match the Twenty Ten template.
* Then we display the excerpt.
* Then we finish the loop with the endwhile statement
*/
?>

<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf(esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyten' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_excerpt();?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php

/* This is the second loop that replaces the standard loop
* It uses the standard loop function calls
*/

if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();

if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue;
update_post_caches($posts);

/* This line gets the post ID and checks it agains our duplicate variable
* If it matches it does nothing. If it's different we display the content
*/

?>

<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf(esc_attr__( 'Permalink to %s', 'twentyten' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

<?php
/* Run the loop to output the posts.
* If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
* called loop-index.php and that will be used instead.
*/
//get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' );
?>

You can add the posted on date, author, posted in etc if you want. Oh by the way I followed this tut http://www.andydickinson.net/2010/09/21/how-to-create-a-wordpress-magazine-theme-using-twentyten/