Display Only Post Title (Not content) When Category Clicked
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What I have:
Categories displayed nice & fine in widget. All categories show up with no problems there. Happy as a clam.=====
What happens now:
When a user clicks on a category, say “Tech Help” – they see a page displaying each of the posts for that category. However, they are seeing the entire post.=====
What I want:
I want them to just see the **TITLE** of that post, not the post content. I want them to be able to read thru the list of titles and see only:“Tech help on logging in”
“Tech help on selecting a user name”
“Tech help on error messages”=====
I’ve searched thru numerous posts, and tried tooling around with the Settings/Reading/Only a summary, but that appears to apply only to feeds, not to how the posts are displayed in the actual blog.Any idea if this is possible?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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(Oh – and yes, I know about the “break” option in a post, but don’t want to have to do that on every individual post).
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This is very close…
… but still doesn’t answer the specific question of whether or not there is a “display” or “read” setting or some such to only display TITLES not CONTENTS of the post whenever a category is clicked on in the widget bar.
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There is no such setting. But there are themes which do it automatically; check them in the Preview and you’ll find one that works the way you like it.
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Maybe the only solution that will give you exactly what you want is to use a Page as a table of contents, with links that show the full title of each post. This requires a bit of work because you’ll have to construct it “by hand,” but it works. You can group your links according to any topic you like, and there’s no reason not to put the same link under more than one topic heading.
I know that most people use categories to accomplish this effect, but somehow that’s never entirely satisfactory — especially if almost every post uses the same category.
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1. Titles in category pages: Chaotic Soul, Hemingway, Ocean Mist, Vigilance.
2. Independent excerpts in category pages: Albeo, Day Dream, Digg 3, Fadtastic, Misty Look, Neo-Sapien, Pressrow, Sandbox, Sandbox 10, Sapphire, Sunburn, 2813, Unsleepable, Vermillon Christmas. If you write nothing but a space in the Excerpt module of the post editor, you’ll get titles only.
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Agreed.. thanks panaghiotisadam. I’m keeping that list! One problem…
WAAAAAH — I thought I’d just go ahead and change my theme to use one of those suggested. But I have the CSS upgrade on the blog I’m using and have a BOATLOAD of things coded unique to Connections.
I’m using Aardvark now to see if I can’t track down something… a widget overwrite or SOMEthing.
It would become difficult (read: full of human error; mine!) to create a TOC, and… there’s gotta be something.
Help meeeeeeeeeeeeeee….
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In that case I would probably do what sensuouscurmudgeon has already suggested: remove the categories widget and create pages (one for each category), with hand-crafted lists of titles. It’s easier than it sounds: you can open two windows in your browser and drag&drop post titles from the main blog page to the visual editor.
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There may be aother advantage in using a Page for your own, hand-crafted table of contents. Google, in its automatic crawling of our blogs, looks for a variety of features (good and bad), and I suspect that one thing they look for is the presence of reader-friendly links to facilitate internal navigation.
I wouldn’t go to the trouble of creating a TOC just to impress Google. It’s too much work and they may not be impressed. But if “rolling your own” TOC seems like the solution to your organizational needs, then do it to benefit your readers. It just might get you some extra Google juice. No guarantees, of course.
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ooooooooooooooooooo— I like this!
Ok. Ok. So… too excited to type. Adding this to my things to try for the week. Will keep u posted.
Yummy!
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