Hi there,

This is a resolved thread that is pretty old and unrelated to your question. Please create a new thread for new questions and I'll be happy to review.

Best,

Chris

Thanks Chris, my excerpt length in functions.php was 15 and changed it to 250 and it worked like a charm. But now I'm off to find out how to get images (ie. logo) to show up in the post. Created a Thank You page, where charity recipients or such (church groups as in my first post) can post thank you to the website: http://www.themainplaceirving.org. BTW, love the theme.

Hi there,

You should be able to put that function anywhere in the functions.php file. Try the top of the file after the opening php tag.

Best,

Chris

<?php the_title(); ?></h2>
doesn't exist on my functions.php file - any ideas.
Without knowing where to place code in Step 2 of Crobinso2010 post above, my exerpts do indeed spill over.

Thanks for sharing! :-)

Best,

Chris

Thanks everyone. For new people here's the steps.

STEP 1: index.php
Go to the index.php file that is in the WPaid folder. In it, use Find to go where it says "<?php the_title(); ?></h2>". Right after the </h> paste: <p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>

STEP 2: functions.php
If you don't specify the number of words the excerpt is, then text may spill over. Go to the functions.php file and use Find to go to where it says <?php the_title(); ?></h2>. Right after the </h> paste (or change the 25 below to whatever number of words you want):

function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
return 25;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

STEP 3: archive.php
So far, you'll only have allowed excerpts for posts that show on your home page. To have them show on other pages, you'll need to past the same thing as Step 1 into the archive.php file. (Note: don't be confused by the name 'archive' as it is just applying to all the categories).

So Step 3 is to repeat what you did in Step 1, but in the archive.php file.

cheers,
Chris R.

Hi there,

Category pages are controlled from the archive.php template file.

Thanks!

Chris

Does anyone know if this applies to category posts NOT on the homepage? Because it doesn't seem to. Any help would be appreciated. :)

Thanks in advance

I'm not Chris, but I just enabled this.

Add the middle line between the first and second lines in the Main Index Template (index.php).

<h2><a>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
<div class="metaInfo"><?php the_time('F j, Y') ?>

Hi Chris,

Can you tell me where within the index.php the code should be entered?
What code should I use?

Thank You

you'll need to add the excerpt into the loop in the index.php http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

-Chris K

I have my blog posts connected to the home page in the center like the demo site has. I was just wondering how to get wp to automatically take like the first 150 words from the entire post and make an excerpt from it to display next to the thumbnail and under the title link.
Thanks