@JCollis I've tried to do what you said and it does work, but not as on your site. Would you please help me do it as appears on your site. I would appreciate to have the_excerpt on the home slider and the news, like the one says continue reading

Hi there,

If the "Donate Button" section of the help file doesn't work, please post a new thread regarding this issue. This thread is for a completely different support question and doesn't belong here.

Thanks!

Chris

Hi I cant see the donate button, I have tried to select the CSS as indicated here - http://themolitor.com/help/wpaid/, but nothing comes up, how can I activate his feature?
Vic

Hey, the excerpt works on my home page ( http://www.test.cwscambodia.org) and I'm just looking back to my index file and the original to see if I can remember how I did this so I can do it for my News page..

In Index.php I changed code from this...

<h2><a>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<div class="metaInfo"><?php the_time('F j, Y') ?>  /  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments ››', '1 Comment ››', '% Comments ››'); ?></div>
</div><!--end title-->

...to this...

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

Let me know if that works.

I have added

<h2><a>">
          <?php the_title(); ?>
          </a></h2>

        <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
        <a>"> Read More...</a>

to my index.php page but the excerpt is still not displaying. I have added excerpt with the post also tried to more tag. no luck..
ideas??

Hey everyone, got the solution for you all. Here's how I did it, I customized the design to remove thumbnails, but here goes. I'm sure you will be able to understand it:

Go to Appearance --> Editor --> Main Index Template (index.php). Look for the start of this code

<div <?php post_class(); ?>>

My code has removed the thumbnails, removed the wordpress meta (i.e. comments), resized the posts listing box and added the excerpt.

<div <?php post_class(); ?>>
<?php if (has_post_thumbnail()) { ?>
<div class="postTitle" style="width: 400px; height: auto;">
<?php } else { ?>
<div class="postTitle noImage">
<?php } ?>
<h2><a>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div><!--end title-->
</div><!--end post-->

In order to make the two spaced evenly, I made modifications to this line of code that can be found here:

Appearance --> Editor --> style.css

Hit CTRL+F and type ".listing .page", you will be shown your respective code, it'll be different than this below. Copy the code I have here below and replace yours.

.listing .page {margin: 0 0 20px; height: 100px; margin-bottom: 45px;}

Hope this helps, have a nice weekend everyone :)

--
SchweizSEO.ch

Still no news ?

...I'm wondering as well

has anyone successfully created excerpts to show up on their blog pages using the First Aid/Charity Theme? If so, where did you put the php code? I've tried in the index to no avail...

I could use some help on this as well. I know the files you are referring to however whenever I add in the excerpt function I get nothing. I've tried it in several places, can you please direct me to what function on what php file controls that? It would be nice to be able to just paste the code in and get excerpts. I am doing this page for a charity and am spending far too much time on this.

Can someone elaborate on this process? I can find the index file but can't find the archive file. Is it in a specific folder? Also, opened up the index.php file with DW and there is no h2 tag. Am I looking at the correct index.php file? Dandebnam you solved this problem perhaps you can walk me through it. I would really appreciate this.

EDIT: For the record I did find the files in the Edit Themes section. I did try to insert the excerpt code and did not work as I wanted it to. I want the excerpt from the posts in the center section of the homepage the "News" category or section. For a look at the site see:
http://www.operationcelebratefreedom.org

I stumbled across this post when I had the same question and have managed to follow your advise thus far.
I have managed to get the excerpts to now show on posts - it was fairly straight forward actually... however ever now and then I incur this error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/mcoduk/public_html/wp-content/themes/wpaid/functions.php:201) in /home/mcoduk/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 866

Any ideas?

EDIT: Solved this myself! Duh! When adding the code to function.php it must be in the loop. I was adding it to the bottom of the code wrapped in its own <?php ?> tags. Sorry for wasting your time!

You would need to edit "index.php" and "archive.php". The function should probably go below the h2 tag for the title.

Can you advise me as to which file and line I need to add the _excerpt()

You can use the_excerpt() to include a snippet of the post. More info here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

Is there a way though to show an excerpt for the blog posts?

This is totally normal. If the donate button appeared automatically on the site, where would it link to? These are things you need to customize.

Please review the "donate button" section of the help file. For reference, here is the online version: http://themolitor.com/help/wpaid/

The theme out of the box also does not show the donate button. I am having to do all kinds of modifications to fix this! Why is the donate button not being shown out of the box?

RJ

As advertised in the theme demo, WordPress Aid does not have post excerpts. Blog listings show the featured image, post title and meta info.

For a 2 column layout, please check your theme options and make sure you select the "Two Columns" checkbox.

You can also make individual pages 2 columns by using the page template. For details, please check the supplied help file.

Hey RJ, I noticed that you just signed up, such as I did. Since you had not gotten a response yet, I thought I would try and help you while I am waiting on my response. I did put my site up today (WORDPRESS AID) and my posts are up...(Hello-Morining.org) are you just not seeing them?

The wordpress aid template does not do as advertised out of the box. I cannot see the posts except. Also I want it to be two coloum or the center colum to be wider.

Please advice.
Thanks
RJ Ratan