How to Display a Post Excerpts Tag
The "Post Excerpts" tag is a feature in WordPress that lets you post excerpts of a particular blog post on the homepage of your website. This serves as a marketing technique where the post excerpt gives your readers only the first few lines of a post and entices them to click to read more. You may need administrative rights to add the Post Excerpts tag to your account.
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Instructions
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Log in to the Web hosting service that you use for WordPress.
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Locate the file labeled "index.php." Double-click it to open the file.
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Locate the following line in the script:
<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry »'); ?>
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Replace the above line with:
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
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Add the following line beneath the line you just replaced:
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Read the rest of <?php the_title(); ?>" class="more-link">Read the rest of this entry »</a>
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Click the "File" tab and select "Save."
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