You must have noticed that I have changed the theme recently. The theme I had previously had this function of showing post summary on the homepage. But the one I have now was showing complete posts on the home page and I didn’t like it so I started looking around for an easy way to fix it. I didn’t want to use the more tag because for that I’d have had to change each and every post. While searching for a better option, I came across this great plugin called Advanced Excerpt.
With this plugin, you can increase or decrease the excerpt using character or word count. You may also keep the links with many other tags.
To make this plugin work for you, please follow these instructions.
1) Download Advanced Excerpt from WordPress Plugin Directory.
2) Upload it to the plugins folder in your website.
3) Activate it from the Admin Panel of your Blog.
4) Go to Theme Editor in Admin Panel.
5) You will have to edit index.php, category.php, search.php, archives.php.
6) Find and replace <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry »'); ?> with <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
7) Now go to Excerpt in Settings tab to change the options of plugin and you are done.
If you cannot manage to install it, please post in comments with detailed problem and I’ll try to help you.
