How to put post excerpts in a page?

Hey!

Making a new theme and wondering is there a way to put a post excerpt in a page. Here´s the idea:

I make a page called SOMETHING

Then I make a post called POST

When a person goes to the page SOMETHING I want him to see a excerpt of the post POST.

and when he clicks the post title or read more he gets to the full post.

Is this possible?

Here´s my page.php at the moment.

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="contentbg">
<div id="content">

	<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

	<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
	
	<div class="entry">
	<?php the_content(); ?>
	
	</div>
	
	
	<?php endwhile; else: ?>

	<h2>Woops...</h2>

	<p>Sorry, no posts we're found.</p>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<p align="center"><?php posts_nav_link(); ?></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear">
	</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

PHP:

Do I need a page template or a single.php file?

I tried googling but did not find a solution.

I´m still learning wp so much of it still a mystery for me.

Hope you can help me.

Thanks in advance.

 

Put this <?php query_posts('p=xx'); ?>, which 'xx' is the post ID of the POST, before <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

then change the <?php the_content(); ?> to <?php the_excerpt(); ?>

Hope my tip help =)

 

Thanks! Worked like a charm! I put the code on page template so it doesnt affect other pages. One question still if you don´t mind

I changed your <?php query_posts('p=xx'); ?> to this <?php query_posts('cat=movies&showposts=5'); ?> so it would only show posts from the category MOVIES. Then i made a post and put it in the GENERAL category, but it still showed up on the page where was supposed to show only MOVIES category posts. What´s wrong?

So grateful if you could help me with this one also. Also learning php step by step still...

Thanks!

 

It is because you are using the wrong syntax. Use this instead

<?php query_posts('category_name=movies&showposts=5'); ?>

If I really helped giving a reputation won't hurt =))

Thanks

 

Thanks that did the trick! And of course I´ll give rep...did not remember it..been a while since I´ve been in the forums

 

no problem. Glad I helped =)