When using Wordpress as a portal news site

As you know, Wordpress displays the whole post content on the home page, however, If you use Wordpress as CMS, and Portal News site, you want it to just show the Headline and the brief description or introduction and then " Read More" link below, so guys how can you do that in the home.php file of the theme ?

any help would be appreciated

thanks

 

no you can not do in home.php do when you are whriteing content more link

 

It is possible, but I dkn how. You can't do it as you said.

 

You can do this by editing the "Main Index Template" (index.php) in your Wordpress admin and replacing the_content() with the_excerpt().
This will just display the title and the first 55 words of the post along with a read more link.

 

you must add <!----more----> to your article and wirte the last of the post after this.

 

You could do it that way too but you will have to add the <!----more----> to every single post. By changing to the_excerpt(), this will be the default for every post.

 

Use Excerpt Reloaded Plugin... I do! Check www.agnivo.com

 

I have done that on my Real Madrid. The title and brief introduction indeed show, but when i click on the article i just see the same not the full article ! whats wrong !.

thanks in advance

 

Hey mike I just followed your advice and this does create homepage post excerpts, but there is no "read more" link to the full post. A visitor would have to click the title to go to the full post. How can I get the "read more" link at the bottom of each excerpt?

I am using wordpress 2.2

 

What you need is to replace your the_content(); carefully with the following ...

... PM me if you need a hand ...

 

Do you have a working example of that, Bochgoch? I'd love to see it in practice.

 

This didn't work at all.
Please guys help ...

 

it is not difficult. when i was new to wordpress, i was also looking for help like you but after long searching on internet i found plugin that help me. Its name is "Excertpt Reloaded". Usage of this plugin is very easy. just read "Read ME" file of this plugin.
Here is my web and u can check it http://www.newsearth.eu.

But i suggest you to find templates that excerpt your post automatically because some times excerpt reloaded plugin do not works properly. so u need to find a good looking templates.

 

I want to do with my site But how to insert thumbnail image 125x125 in introduction text, then click read more to view full post?
Please guys help