Display Only Excerpts Instead of Full Posts

By default in the theme “Twenty Eleven” of WordPress everywhere (except for search results) full posts are displayed. But I don’t like that, because if I click on a category or tag, I just want to get an overview what posts are assigned to it. If I want to read one completely, I can still click on it.

Therefore I wanted to display only excerpts of posts for following pages:

  • Search results (which is the case by default already)
  • Homepage of the blog
  • Category archive pages
  • Tag archive pages
  • Date-based archive pages (I don’t use them at all right now)

To accomplish that, you just have to replace the line in the “content.php” theme file

<?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?>

with this one:

<?php if ( is_home() || is_tag() || is_category() || is_date() || is_search() ) : ?>

That’s it. Now at least I think it looks better for the user and I’m sure also search engines don’t mind that (keyword: “duplicate content”). ;-)

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One thought on “Display Only Excerpts Instead of Full Posts

  1. Thank you.

    My question now is how to I remove everything else. The comment cloud, the page divider, the tags and post title.

    I am adding boxes in my excerpts so they act like product boxes when people click on categories. I got it working on another theme, but I can not seem to get it working here.

    Here is an example of what I did:
    http://motion-master-templates.com/category/member-templates

    So pretty much I am looking for a clean page and only show the excerpts and sidebar.

    Thank you. :)

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