How To Show Excerpts Instead Of Full Posts On Your Blog Homepage

03.04.09 by Jerome in Tutorials

I came across an interesting question the other day. I wanted to feature only a short post excerpt for the homepage to promote more posts and push people to click, read and hopefully leave comments.
It doesn’t really make sense to have your full post on your homepage especially if you have a really long post and can feature only few headlines.
I know there are a few plugins out there that can do the job but by simply opening the index.php page find the tag:

<?php the_content(); ?>

replace it with:

<p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>

At this stage you will have the excerpt with [...]. I wanted to replace [...] with a nice link

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