I put up a blog with WP 2.7 however apart from the index.php I want all other posts to be displayed fully. I did a research on the coding and to my understanding I am suppose to change ‘<?php the_excerpt(); ?>' to ‘<?php the_content(); ?>' in index.php, affecting archives.php, archive.php category.php. First problem is in my theme files there is no category.php Secondly the index php has this tags <?php the_content(__('Read more', 'studiopress'));?><div class="clear"></div> So I am confused Anyway, I don't know anything about coding as a matter of fact this is my first blog it's driving me crazy and I am not even 10% finished. Can someone please help?
Firstly, if a theme does not have a category.php file, then the archive.php, and if it doesn't have a archive.php file then the index.php file is used. This is called the template hierarchy. You can read more about it here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy Secondly, <div class="clear"></div> is not part of the <?php the_content();?> tag, and the parameter in the brackets (__('Read more', 'studiopress')) is for the "Read more" link to the full post if you use the <!--more--> quicktag in your post. It is always a good idea to include the parameter so you can replace '<?php the_excerpt(); ?>' with '<?php the_content(__('Read more', 'studiopress')); ?>' You can read up on the the_excerpt here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt and the_content here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content
Thank qazu for the information however it is still too complex for me I would like hire anyone knowledgeable in coding to fix this for me. Let me know!