Just a little problem here folks

[spin]

First off thank you for this wonderful theme.
My posts are showing the full post on main page rather than the mini version with a read more button to send reader to where the full y written topic is stored.i Can someone please tell me how to get it like the demo please?

thanks in advance

[Kevin]

Hi Spin,

Go to the reading panel in your wordpress settings and make sure you select summary instead of full post in the part which says 'For each article in a feed, show'.

[spin]

Thanks Kevin, I tried that earlier and no work, therefore I assumed it was not the action needed to correct this problem. I did try this again after reading this post...no luck here ...I'm running 2.6.5

[sarahG]

How long are your posts? It may be that they're too short to 'trigger' the summary version. Another fix would be to open up the index.php file and change the template tag the_content() to the_excerpt().

[spin]

Hi sarahG, Some are short and a few are really really long. Not sure whats what with the above explaination. I'll try to look at this a bit closer...thanks

Thank you Hi sarahG, that worked nicely, now may I ask, how do I get a image next to each of those front page excerpts?

Again thanks

[sarahG]

There's a number of ways, it depends on how happy you are with coding. the_excerpt() displays just plain text, it strips all HTML tags out, so if you wanted to specify the image next to the excerpt for each individual post then you'd need to use something a bit more advanced. If you wanted to just display 1 of a random number of images then that'd be done directly in the index.php template.

However I'll assume you want a unique image for each post. If so then you could either use a custom field, upload the image via the media uploader and then get the URL and put this in as a custom field eg. fpimage. Then in the loop you'd just need to call this value and insert it into an image if it existed - see http://www.bloggingtips.com/2008/11/02/wordpress-custom-fields/

Alternatively, there is a plugin that does the excerpts but doesn't strip out the HTML, Blogging Tips uses this, however Kevin will need to let you know what this plugin is. Then you just insert your image into your post and the plugin will display an excerpt including the image.

[spin]

Hi sarahG

First off thank you very much. You are very kind. I think the plug-in is best for me tired old bones.....hopefully Kevin will see this and advise me

Take care and again thanks :)

PS anyway to get this except to extend the content a bit. Mine are so short. I just went to homepage of blogging tips and that is exactly what I would like to do on mine. Thank

[Kevin]

This is the plugin I use

http://sparepencil.com/code/advanced-excerpt/

:)

[spin]

This is the plugin I use

http://sparepencil.com/code/advanced-excerpt/

:)

Sweet

Thanks Kevin

HI Kevin

That worked! However when the post has been cut off it doesn't have the traditional read more hyperlink or words to that effect. Looking over the plug-in I don't see any options for that. By chance you have any ideas please and thanks again for this.


Have an update here

I found this http://faq.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/splitting-posts-with-the-more-tag/

Sorry for all the headachs guys...... Anyway this doesnt work for me....i mean it cuts off but no more tag left behind...wondering if the earlier changes I made is effecting this, so I might change it back and try using the more tag thingy....If anyone has a suggestion I am all ears

OK that worked well for those whom may come across this thread in the future. Now I cant find any info on how to seperate the posts with a line on main page or homepage....looking, and still looking

[sarahG]

You've been offered several suggestions, however they're separate suggestions, ie. don't mix and match them.

Usually the setting in your admin should do the trick (which didn't for you obviously)
The excerpt will put out a plain text excerpt
The plugin will do a HTML excerpt
The more tag gives you greater control and I think puts out HTML excerpts

The more tag gives the most control however also means you have to put it into every post, so that's the disadvantage of using it.

OK that worked well for those whom may come across this thread in the future. Now I cant find any info on how to seperate the posts with a line on main page or homepage....looking, and still looking

What do you mean as this isn't clear.