Due to the inherent structure of posts in WordPress, they’re used for content that is released periodically in series—much like journal entries, your WordPress website being the journal.
This WordPress Post Excerpt Video Tutorial covers the following topics:
- How to switch to summary view.
- How to enable the excerpt module.
- How to use the read more tag.
By default, your WordPress website will display the full content of your posts on the homepage, or your posts page. In order to control what content displays on your WordPress’s homepage, read ThinkCode’s tutorial on WordPress settings.
Having your entire post’s body content visible on your posts page will in turn mean lots of scrolling for your users to find content on your site, and creates a less-than-optimal user experience. WordPress provides two excellent solutions for cleaning up your blog, RSS feed and archive pages.
The WordPress Excerpt module gives you the option to define exactly what you want your readers to see before clicking to read the full post. To activate this excerpt feature, first click Reading under the Settings tab in the WordPress dashboard. Navigate to the option that reads “For each article in a feed, show…” and select Summary.
Under reading options, select “Summary.”
From there, navigate to the post you’d like to edit**, or go add a new post. If the excerpt module is not visible, click the Screen Options at the top of your screen, and under Show on Screen, check the box next to Excerpt. The excerpt module should now display on your post editor screen. Write or copy-and-paste the content you’d like to use as your post’s excerpt, and when you’re done, click either publish or update, depending on if you’re editing a post or publishing it for the first time.
If your blog is still displaying the full post, another solution is making use of the Read More tag. This can be found in the toolbar of the **Visual Editor. Move your cursor to where you would like the content to break, and click the Read More tag. Everything above the tag will display in your blog feed, and everything below the tag will be visible only when the user clicks the read more link. This is a great tactic to incite readers to read content “after the jump.”
Place your cursor where you’d like to break the text, and click the “Read More” tag.
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