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Blog Overview to show Excerpts instead of Full Text

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Started 1 year ago by rizsedek
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rizsedek
Member

Hello,

Good job on Broadscope!

Can you tell me please, how do I get my Blog Overview page to show excerpts with a "Read More" button, instead of the whole post?

I have tried
- changing the settings of the "Blog" page template to "Blog Overview".
- changing the Reading settings Wordpress to "Summary" instead of "Full text"

Neither of these worked. I'm guessing it is something in the theme editor that I need to change, but have no idea what or how.

Help please. Link to my blog page is: http://farizahsedek.com/blog/

Thank you in advance!

Riz

Posted 1 year ago #
rizsedek
Member

Solved it.

1. Change loop-index.php
Do what it says here: http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/blog-main-page-showing-the-entire-post
Remember to copy everything from  to 

2. Open loop-page.php and save as loop-single.php
Paste copied meta info after the </h1> tag
Change <div class='entry-content'> to <div class='entry-content four_fifth'>

3. Change single.php
from: get_template_part( 'includes/loop', 'index' );
to: get_template_part( 'includes/loop', 'single' );

4. Change function.php
Copy & paste somewhere:
function excerpt_read_more_link($output) {
global $post;
return $output . 'ID) . '"> Read More...';
}
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'excerpt_read_more_link');

Now my next question is:

How do I make it so that instead of just the text "Read More...", it is a button like the blog shown in the theme preview?

Posted 1 year ago #
rizsedek
Member

That didn't turn out right. Got the excerpt link thing here. http://codex.wordpress.org/Excerpt

(Have no idea how to do the box thingie for the codes.)

Posted 1 year ago #
Dude
Dude

Hey!

There's an easier solution :) - just use the  quicktag. See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content and http://www.tech-evangelist.com/2009/03/08/wordpress-more-quicktag/ for more details.

Best regards,
Peter

Posted 1 year ago #