Wordpress help

This would probably be a very quick fix for all you php programmers, but I don't know much about the language so I thought I would ask.

On the index page of my blog, it shows recent posts, but it shows the entire post. Is there a way to just have a portion of the recent posts showing on the main page, then have a 'read more' at the bottom so they have to go to the actual post page to view the content?

Thanks in advance!

~myke

 

Yes, when writing your articles, in the toolbar where you change text, font etc. There is a READ MORE OPTION. IT SHOULD SAY " insert more tag"

 

Ohhh, ok I see it now. Is there a way to quick edit all the posts? Because I have 400+ posts on my blog, and it would some time editing every single one.

 

Sorry, I do not think so. But it should take you around 20 seconds for each post. So that would be 8000 seconds. So that would be 133 minutes so around 2 hours and a bit.

 

Hahah ok thanks! Probably worth the time, so I'll get at it.

Thanks for the help, I repped ya.

 

I noticed when I click on the 'read more' on the main page, it takes me to the post page, but the page starts at where the 'read more' tag started, How do I make the page start at the top?

 

It should be like this:

texttexttext............................................................
texttexttext............................................................
texttexttext............................................................
INSERT READ MORE HERE
texttexttext............................................................
texttexttext............................................................
texttexttext............................................................

 

Im not sure why that is happening.. When I click read more on my blogs it takes me to the post.. but displays the whole post.

 

There is another way to do this that will not require you to edit all your posts. Open your index.php file and replace the_content with the_excerpt. For example, in the default WordPress theme:

<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
</div>

Code (markup):

would change to:

<div class="entry">
<?php the_excerpt('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
</div>

Code (markup):

You may also like to have a link to the bottom right that says read more. In this case, the full code for the default theme would look like this:

<div class="entry">
<?php the_excerpt('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?><div style="text-align:right;"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">Read more &raquo;</a></div>
</div>

Code (markup):

If you have any problems implementing this, you may post your index.php code here and I will edit it for you and repost it for your use.

 

Use "excerpt-editor" plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/excerpt-editor/