How can I have multiple short articles

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    I have to have multiple short articles in one page that exit out into the actual page.. Like a teaser box
    I want to have short descriptions of articles the read more or more link out to actual article.
    Thanks in advance
     
    aj845, May 18, 2012 IP
  2. Nigel Lew

    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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    That depends on the template basically but what you are looking for are called "excerpts" and should be found on the post page.

    That said, hard to advise you completely without seeing the template etc.

    hope that helps,
    Nigel
     
    Nigel Lew, May 18, 2012 IP
  3. aj845

    aj845 Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for the information. My template is custom made and i looked for excerpts couldn't find it..
     
    aj845, May 19, 2012 IP
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    iMarcus Active Member

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    Normally the excerpts are on 'archive' pages, ie category pages and tag pages. If you use the theme editor inside of wordpress, goto category.php or archive.php and look in the code for "the_content()". Swap this for "the_excerpt()" and providing you have entered the excerpt for a post, it will show this instead of the full content. If you dont enter an excerpt manually, wordpress will usually show the first 160 (iirc) charachters of the post content.
     
    iMarcus, May 24, 2012 IP