A Place For Stephen

The default theme for WordPress shows ALL the content of the ten most recent posts on the home page.

Now if you are a prolific writer, this could be one hell of a huge home page to download. And, unfortunately, not all of your posts are going to be interesting to every visitor, and you’re making it hard for them to find the next post by scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.

Instead, I prefer to show only a SUMMARY of each post, followed by a MORE link… to use it as a “teaser” to entice my visitors to click further IF THEY ARE INTERESTED!

However to include the SUMMARY, you can EITHER:

1. use the <!–more–> tag in your post, OR
   
2. edit your template file

IF you use the <!–more–> tag in your actual post, then you will only show the post’s content down to that tag. When it gets to that point, it will show a message that tells the viewer to click for more details.

If you forget to use the <!–more–> tag in a post, it will show the WHOLE POST.

It’s best if you look at the template file to see how it works.

Let’s do that now.

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