Comments on: Replacing WordPress content with an excerpt without editing theme files

By: Sarbjit Singh

Sarbjit Singh — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:24:59 +0000

You just saved me from editing my theme. I use child themes, so just needed to change one line of code. However, it is always better to do things with filters.

By: Keval

Keval — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:16:35 +0000

Thank you so much! I recently had to reinstall my theme due to a coding mess error in the header.php, and when I reinstalled, I noticed my home page was out of whack because my previous coding had not been saved.

I new integrating an excerpt was the only way, and this was the only set of instructions that worked perfectly for me. Thanks again!

By: Jonathan Sampson

Jonathan Sampson — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:15:58 +0000

Swamykant, Reversing it (delivering the_content in the place of the_excerpt) is even easier since there's no danger of recursive calls:

// Anytime my theme calls the_excerpt()`, call myCustFunct()
add_action( 'the_excerpt', 'myCustFunc' );
function myCustFunc ( $data ) {
  // Spit out the_content(), disregarding $data
  the_content();
}

Hope this helps.

By: Swamykant

Swamykant — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:04:53 +0000

Nice trick. But I want to the reverse way ?

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By: Kim Lee

Kim Lee — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:45:14 +0000

Hi Justin,
I am changing the_content with the_excerpt on almost every blog that I make. Naturally I have to repeat it on every new theme I upload and test. If I understood the benefit of your approach correctly, by making this adjustment, every theme that I upload to my blog will automatically display excerpt instead of content on the archives, front page and search page. Did I understand it correctly?

By: baja hoodie

baja hoodie — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:29:57 +0000

I will use this on my new themes.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:21:08 +0000

Thank you so much !

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