WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Excerpts won't work http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Excerpts won't work en Tue, 21 May 2013 20:11:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 panaghiotisadam on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660801 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:58:57 +0000 panaghiotisadam 660801@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Will do (if the theme team give me a break)!

]]> timethief on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660787 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:35:14 +0000 timethief 660787@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oops! Do a post on post formats too.

]]> timethief on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660785 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:34:44 +0000 timethief 660785@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Update the post ... lol :D

]]> panaghiotisadam on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660775 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:28:50 +0000 panaghiotisadam 660775@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Want to know now or wait till I update the post? (Ideally I should also write a post on post formats first, so that I'll have where to link to for the list!)

]]> thesacredpath on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660762 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:18:26 +0000 thesacredpath 660762@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

But it comes with a complication.

I can only imagine...

]]> panaghiotisadam on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660752 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:06:16 +0000 panaghiotisadam 660752@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ What my post doesn't say (yet) is that you can now create custom excerpts in a new group of themes too: those with the Gallery format option (Beach, Blogum, Chateau, Coraline, Duster, Fruit Shake, Liquorice, Manifest, Matala, Mystique, Rusty Grunge, Toolbox, Twenty Eleven, Twenty Ten and Vertigo). But it comes with a complication.

]]> thesacredpath on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660733 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:46:41 +0000 thesacredpath 660733@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Look in that post by Panos in the left column under "Main posts page and Category/Archive pages" and those are the ones that support it.

Some themes have the except function built right into them and will limit the number of words or characters automatically and if you use the excerpt function in conjunction with that you can normally choose your own introductory text to display. Inuit Types is one such theme and I believe Structure is another one.

And in that post by Panos it also says, "Excerpts in Chateau and Fusion work only if you have selected the relevant option in Appearance > Theme Options."

]]> timethief on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660729 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:43:43 +0000 timethief 660729@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

When choosing a new theme, is there a way to know whether they support excerpts or not?

Yes, please refer to the list thesacredpath posted the link to above. It's continually updated as themes are added.
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/the-excerpt-function/

]]> morganash on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660721 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:35:53 +0000 morganash 660721@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ahh okay. Thanks for the help! When choosing a new theme, is there a way to know whether they support excerpts or not?

]]> thesacredpath on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660703 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:15:11 +0000 thesacredpath 660703@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If you've tried an excerpt, and it did not work with Ocean Mist, then that is one that does not support excerpts.

You can however use the more tag on your posts and shorten them up as you desire on a post by post basis.

]]> morganash on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660689 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:57:32 +0000 morganash 660689@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ http://morganash.wordpress.com/

The theme I'm using is Ocean Mist, which didn't show up on the list of the link you gave, @thesacredpath

]]> thesacredpath on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660688 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:56:07 +0000 thesacredpath 660688@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks Rain, I was just about to come back and ask for that.

]]> thesacredpath on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660686 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:54:53 +0000 thesacredpath 660686@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Excerpts do not work on all themes here. For a list of which themes they work on, and which pages they will show up on, see this post by Panos.

]]> raincoaster on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660685 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:53:39 +0000 raincoaster 660685@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We can't help without a link to the blog, starting with http.

]]> morganash on "Excerpts won't work" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/excerpts-wont-work#post-660682 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:51:38 +0000 morganash 660682@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ When I type in an excerpt it doesn't show up on my home page. I don't want to use the More function because I want different excerpts than the first few lines of my post. How do I know if the theme I have doesn't support excerpts? If I want to code for excerpts, where do I do so -- in the excerpt box, at the top of the post? Please help!!! This is boggling my mind!

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