Hello,
The front page of my new Wordpress site is showing the entire post. I want to have it show part of the most recent posts.
I can’t find it anywhere in the Wordpress login dashboard.
There must be a way to set this easily. “Everybody” does it this way.
Could you imagine the front page of a site having a series of two-page articles, rather than just showing you the first paragraph of each?
Well… LOL!
I solved it.
It’s kind of ridiculous if you ask me. But nobody asked LOL!
I would have bet the farm there would be some sort of programmatic setting like “truncate after 25 lines” or “truncate after 300 vertical pixels”.
But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
When you are in the HTML editor of the post, there is a button right above where you are typing. It says “more” on it.
You hit that button where you want the post to chop off on the summary.
Then when you hit the save/update button, you can go look and see that it’s actually truncating where you placed the “more” tag.
The HTML get placed in like this:
<!–more–>
O.K. I’m happy I found this. So I’ll put this rolling cartoon person in to finish the post:
If you want it to be only a short bit for every post, look at the link below. You will need to understand PHP to make theses edits.
Display Post Excerpts Only in WordPress « Lorelle on WordPress