Blog Post help

[StripesAndFins]

Ok, I know it's not a forum, but I still need help.

On the new blog I just madeI made a post. The post looks fine and everything, but on the homepage it is super long and shows the whole thing instead of just the first part or part of it like I see on other blogs.

Can i have some help?

 

[Nathan]

What blog software are you using and can we have a demo please?

 

[StripesAndFins]

I am using wordpress, and I don't know what a demo is 😛

 

[David]

Go to the index.php (if not, main.php)and then find

<span class="syntaxdefault"><?php the_content</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">();</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> ?></span>

and then replace it with:

<span class="syntaxdefault"><?php the_excerpt</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">();</span><span class="syntaxdefault"> ?></span>

Then, I suggest using Advanced Excerpt plugin to control your excerpts.

 

[khaleel]

nope don't do that
go to your post and add a page break in it

 

[StripesAndFins]

I'm gonna go with Khaleel here as I don't know how to do what you said, David 😛

Edit: how do you do that Khaleel? 😛

 

[David]

khaleel, that wouldn't be right. Adding a page break isn't going to result in an excerpt.

Wolfy, my advice is correct, and even go to the Wordpress support forum, they will say the exact same concept as me.

Since you are a novice, I will show you how to do it:
1. Log in
2. Appearance > Editor
3. Search for <?php the_content(); ?> in Main Index Template (index.php), if not, Page Template(page.php)
4. Replace "content" with "excerpt".
5. Go to plugins, and search for Advanced Excerpts and download it. Activate it and adjust how many words for each excerpt.

Hope that's simple enough. But seriously, you go here for technical support, and reject what's being said; I just don't get it 😕

 

[iGame]

What a post break does it simple it closes the post at a certain line and then its add view full post if you want that then do that if you want to close all post at a certainly line do to dotDavid said