Comments on: How to change your wordpress blog to display excerpts instead of full posts http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/how-to-change-your-wordpress-blog-to-display-excerpts-instead-of-full-posts/ 805-827-2450 We offer complete social media website design, marketing systems, agency services and video production. Grow your busienss and your web presence with Viral Video and RSS Feeds Syndication Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:55:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: LoneWolf http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/how-to-change-your-wordpress-blog-to-display-excerpts-instead-of-full-posts/#comment-25086 LoneWolf Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:15:45 +0000 http://socialmediasystems.com/?p=766#comment-25086 Looks like I forgot to escape my html example -- lets try again! <?php the_extract (); > <a href="<?php the_permalink (); ?>">Read the rest ...</a> Hopefully I got all the < and > symbols right. Looks like I forgot to escape my html example — lets try again!

<?php the_extract (); > <a href=”<?php the_permalink (); ?>”>Read the rest …</a>

Hopefully I got all the < and > symbols right.

]]> By: LoneWolf http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/how-to-change-your-wordpress-blog-to-display-excerpts-instead-of-full-posts/#comment-25085 LoneWolf Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:07:50 +0000 http://socialmediasystems.com/?p=766#comment-25085 One thing to watch out for is that the_excerpt () does not include a link to the full post as the_content () does when showing a teaser. You would need to add something like: <a href="">Read the rest ...</a> You could also add a class to the <a> tag and style it in the style.css file for the template if you want the link to look different than other links. One thing to watch out for is that the_excerpt () does not include a link to the full post as the_content () does when showing a teaser. You would need to add something like:

<a href="”>Read the rest …

You could also add a class to the tag and style it in the style.css file for the template if you want the link to look different than other links.

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