{"id":2390,"date":"2012-08-25T02:10:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T02:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2012-09-01T09:10:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T09:10:41","slug":"add-excerpts-to-wordpress-main-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/add-excerpts-to-wordpress-main-page.html","title":{"rendered":"Add Excerpts To WordPress Main Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like mono-lab themes, but none of them has excerpts built-in to list posts with excerpts on the main blog page. I found some codes that actually will work with any themes that don’t have excerpts functions at all. WordPress has built-in excerpts function, but the theme has to call it out to use.<\/em><\/p>\n

Depends upon the theme you use, on mono-lab piano-black and flat, 2 files that need to add codes to are function.php and index.php.<\/em><\/p>\n

Function.php codes<\/a>: add these line any where in the function.php. Change the return # to the maximum characters we want to display, I set mine to 100 characters.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

function trim_excerpt($text) {
\nglobal $post;
\nreturn str_replace('[...]', '<a href=\"'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '\">' . '...' . __('Read More', 'flat') . '' . '<\/a>', $text);
\n}
\nadd_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'trim_excerpt');<\/code><\/em><\/p>\n

function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {<\/em>
\n return 100;<\/em>
\n }<\/em>
\n add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘custom_excerpt_length’, 999 );<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Index.php, Search.php, Archive.php codes:<\/a> add these lines to replace the post codes between “post_content” and “wp_link_page”<\/em><\/p>\n

<div class=\"post_content\">
\n<?php if (trim_excerpt('$text')){
\nthe_excerpt();
\n} else {
\nthe_content(__('Read more', 'flat'));
\n}?>
\n<?php wp_link_pages(); ?><\/code><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I added these codes to get excerpts on my main page of Flat theme from mono-lab<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n