Need your help with WP

[kikiriki]

I dont know why but the content on my main page in my wp site
is always showing the full article and not just the summary.
I did changed the settings in the reading section in wp to show only
the summary of the content but its still showing the full article and the
problem is that when its showing the full article on the main page its not
showing the adsense ads that are within the article, only when you click
trough the article you see the adsense ads, so by letting the viewer read the
entire article on the main page, i am loosing money because there is no ads
in front of him.
How can i fix that and make it show only a small summary instead of the full
article??

 

[chockomonkey]

I use a plugin which includes a picture with the summary... thumbnail-for-excerpts
is it's name.

Hope this helps.

 

[-Jericho-]

Did you use the "more" tag? Go to the html version of your post and put in the <-more-> tag and see if that works.

 

[kikiriki]

If i do that then i will have to do it to every post right?
Its not a good solution since its an autoblog

 

[GreyWolf]

That will usually be configured by your theme.

Go to your wp dashboard. Choose the appearance tab. Click on your theme options.

Look for a section like "Post & Pages", look for a something like "Configure EXCERPTS", look for something like "Posts or excerts on HOME page?" choose "Only Excerpts", Look for something like "Show the first X posts on Home page as full posts?" choose "0".
You can also look for something like "Don't strip these tags" and add the html tags that show your ads.

Like I said these settings will be theme specific, but you should be able to find similar settings in most themes, if the theme is any good.

 

[kikiriki]

I am trying to do that, but all i see when i click on the appearance is the
themes that i uploaded to wp.
There is no posts and pages in there just themes.

 

[GreyWolf]

I am trying to do that, but all i see when i click on the appearance is the
themes that i uploaded to wp.
There is no posts and pages in there just themes.

Usually in the Appearance tab there will be a "(Your Theme Name) Options" selection listed as one of the last selections. If the theme author didn't include any options, then I'd have to actually log into your dashboard to hunt for it. That's a little more work than I want to do right now.

You might try googling: (Your Theme Name) configure excerpts.
or variations of that. Hopefully someone else using the same theme has wanted to do the same thing.

edit - It might help if you tell us what theme you're using.

 

[nambooooo]

Look through this
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=Excerpt
Posted via Mobile Device

 

[kikiriki]

I am using this theme:
Stripey 1.6 by
Its the same theme from the autobloging course from shezboy

 

[kikiriki]

I am looking all over my wp admin an i cant find the solution to this problem

 

[kikiriki]

Sorry for bumping this but i really need a solution to this

 

[chockomonkey]

Don't know what else to tell you... did you try using the plugin? Not only will it give you pictures with each post, it'll also do what you're talking about. If you don't want (don't have) pictures, then i don't know what to say.

 

[kikiriki]

No i dont have pics man, i see all over the net wp sites that have the summary on their
main page and i also saw a site with this theme that has the summary on his main page
and not the entire article, but i cant make it to my site why?

 

[-Jericho-]

Try this:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-display-post-excerpts-in-wordpress-themes/

 

[andrewfopalan]

sheez.. this is pretty simple.. on your post page on the wp-admin.. just right below the POST you have made.. there's a little box just like the one... where you make your POST.. that's the EXCERPT box.. all you have to do is.. copy the parts you wanted to preview on your wordpress and thats it.. by default, if WP doesnt' see the excerpt, the whole post is going to be shown..

 

[jetiz]

@ andrewfopalan
Yes thats a solution but...
The OP doesnt want to do it manually to all the posts.

 

[jeffers1957]

If you do not write a custom excerpt, then WordPress automatically takes the first 55 words from your post and put them in an excerpt with elipses and display it. You can change the word limit starting from WordPress 2.9. If you want to change the word limit open your functions.php file and add the following function:


// Changing excerpt length
function new_excerpt_length($length) {
return 100;
}
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');

// Changing excerpt more
function new_excerpt_more($more) {
return '%u2026';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

hope this helps you out:0)

 

[kikiriki]

Yes i dont want to do it manually cuase i got like 15-20 posts on autopilot
everyday and i will never keep up with the posts this way.
I need a solution that will apply this to all the posts in my blog

 

[GreyWolf]

Yes i dont want to do it manually cuase i got like 15-20 posts on autopilot
everyday and i will never keep up with the posts this way.
I need a solution that will apply this to all the posts in my blog

@kikiriki - did you check the plugin chockomonkey posted for you? I had to take off this morning. It sounds like that might do what you want.

 

[kikiriki]

To GeryWolf:
I did checked the plugin description and i cant
use it cause i dont have pics for it.

To Jeffers1957:
I can put the code on my theme but how to i change the word count?
I mean where to i insert the 30 number so it will display only the first 30
words of my article?
Thank you.