Wordpress Summary Post Plugin

Instead of the the whole content of the post, are there any good summary post plugin for Wordpress? Thanks.

 

are you looking for the 'more' function that takes you to the full post once you click it by any chance? check editor -> code editor -> click 'more'

 

Yes just do as said above there is a button the the visual editor toolbar which does this for you no need for plugins it is already there

 

Sorry, I did not make myself clearly. I was looking for something that I can implement automatically without adding the more options every time I create a post. Thanks.

 

Sorry, i think if you go into index.php file and change the_content() to the_excerpt() it will automatically limit it to the first 55 words every time.

 

Do I need to add contents to my excerpt when I am posting a new topic? Thanks.

 

i'm not sure what you mean, if you change the_content to the_excerpt on whatever file you want to do it on say index.php then it should automatically summarise a new topic to 55 words on your index.php.

 

Open your theme folder, and open your index.php file with a text editor software (for instance notepad)

Fine the_content text there, and replace it with the_excerpt.

 

Thanks I got it now. The only problem is that:
Instead of just the text[...], can I have the link to the topic on the [...]?
Thanks.

 

Actually, what I want to do is:

Main Page:

topic #1
........[] // from the_excerpt()

topic #2
........[] // from the_excerpt()

topic #n
........[] // from the_excerpt()

when the user click the topic #1, it will bring up the topic #1 again (same as before), and the actual link.

For example, the new page will have the following:

topic #1
............[]

Read Full article: link (this link will point to the actual link)

How can I achieve the above scheme? Thanks.

 

There are two solutions.

1- Use the_excerpt(), but right after that add permalink template tag.

 <?php the_excerpt(); ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read More</a> 

Code (markup):

But; there is a disadvantage of using the_excerpt. This function is removing any type of format that you applied to your text. Summary wouldn't contain any image, link, list.

2- There is a great wordpress plugin, that allows you to format your summary, set word count to be displayed and add read more to the end of summary.

Here is the download link: http://guff.szub.net/downloads/the-excerpt-reloaded.zip

Once you downloaded the plugin, extract and upload it to your wp-content>plugins folder. Then login your admin area, choice plugins from the tab menu and activate the_excerpt reload plugin.

Then you need to go back to your index.php file in your themes folder again. replace

<?php the_excerpt() ?> with the folllowing
<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(50, '<img><div>', 'none', TRUE, '[Read On...]', TRUE); ?>

What the things between brackets means?
<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(excerpt_length, 'allowedtags', 'filter_type', use_more_link, 'more_link_text', force_more_link, fakeit, fix_tags); ?>

Here you will need to edit only three things:
excerpt_length; that is set to 50 words, change it according to your wish how many words you want to display as summary.

allowedtags; I set only images and links to be displayed on the summary, you can expand the list by adding <ul><li><blockquote><strong> tags next to <img><a>

[Read On...]; Some people like to display continue reading, some display read more. I dont know what you want to display as more text- So edit it as you like.

Hope this helps, let me know if you need more explanation (I might miss the subject, pm if no response for long time)

 

Thanks for your reply, xxMirceaxx.

It did what I wanted. Thanks. . But I know need you and the experts on this forum to help me further.

Here is my scenerio.

Main Page
Topic #1
..........[]

Topic #2
..........[]

Topic #n
..........[]

For Topic #1 & Topic #n, I will follow your advise.

Let say Topic #2 is published by a feed (using feedwordpress), I want to be able to add the link to the feed's article. For example,
Topic #2
...............[Read full article] // this Read full article will point to the feed's article instead of whole article on my site.

Another alternative is when the user clicks the "Topic #2", it will bring back the same summary, and the page will have
Topic #2
...............[Read full article] // this Read full article will point to the feed's article instead of whole article on my site.

How can I get the feed's link? And how can I do the above?

Thanks.

 

not sure if this will help ut i use it to customize the more tag

http://psychopyko.com/downloads/more-link-modifier/

 

Hey thanks for this link it really helped a lot!

 

Thanks mhmtozek. Your link and directions work perfectly!

 

very nice trick ... big thanks for this

 

I needed this too. I will try this. Thanks.

 

By the way, you can configure the number of the excerpt-words by adding
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');
function my_excerpt_length($length) { return 20; }

to your template functions.php

 

use post teaser plugin will help you great in wordpress.

 

dear, really very good job, only 1 easy step and done.
Thanks