Wordpress Help: How do I display only a summary of each post on the homepage?

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  1. #1
    Hi all,

    Can anyone tell me th equickest way to make it so that only a summary of each post shows up on the homepage?

    Thanks in advance!

    Eric
     
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  2. ImVickieB

    ImVickieB Berserker

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    #2
    If you put the "more" quicktag after the first paragraph or so, it will only show the text above that and then have a link to read the rest of the post. Doesn't help with current posts, unless you go back and edit, but all future ones will work.
     
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    #3
    yeh, as said above use the more tag 
    <!--more-->
    Code (markup):
    anything before it will show as summary and anything after will show when they click the more link
     
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    zman Peon

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    Thats it? :eek:

    Ok, thanks for the help!
     
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    #5
    Do you know if that "more" tag works on blogger?
     
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    never used blogger so i dont know, but it works on most blogging software.
     
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  7. zman

    zman Peon

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    Next question...

    I can't for the life of me find this:
    <div id="header">

    So that I can make the header link to the homepage. Any ideas where I would find it in the default kubrick template?
     
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    Go to control panel > Presentation > Theme Editor > Header Template, that's where it is in mine (Custom build template, but it should be there)
     
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  9. just-4-teens

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    #9

    also note be able to edit/save files via admin panel the files need to be writable by the server (CHMOD 666)
     
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    #10

    the skins/theme are located in the wp_content/themes/ folder.
    not sure what theme folder kubrick is in but the header.php file will contain the <div id="header">

    it should be something similar to 

    </head>
<body>

<div id="page">


<div id="header">
    <h1 class="header"><strong><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></strong></h1>
    <div id="menu">
    Code (markup):
     
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    pinkeyedjim Well-Known Member

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    If you want just excerpts of your posts, you can also do this:

    I think that if you type a summary of the article into the box in wordpress that says "excerpt" you can then replace the <?php the_content(); ?> with <?php the_excerpt(); ?> in your main template, so long as you have a seperate "single post" template that has <?php the_content(); ?> in it.

    For more: codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt
     
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