AB-WebLog.com» theme http://www.ab-weblog.com/en Andreas Breitschopp Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:47:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Display Only Excerpts Instead of Full Posts http://www.ab-weblog.com/en/display-only-excerpts-instead-of-full-posts/ http://www.ab-weblog.com/en/display-only-excerpts-instead-of-full-posts/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:05:49 +0000 Andreas Breitschopp http://www.ab-weblog.com/en/?p=23 Continue reading →]]> 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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