How to show full entries on category pages?
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Is there an option to enable full entries on the category page? (rather than only the title)
Or is this a function enabled/disabled through the theme/template set used?I’m doing a small photo blog with very short single photo entries, and really would like the category pages to show the entries in their entirety so viewers don’t need to click back and forth into every single entry to view an image.
Thank you for your help.
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Whether or not a full entry appears is theme dependent. Some display only linked titles, other display linked titles and brief excerpts and others display full posts. The one thing they all have in common is that we can click the linked title to read the full post. If the way these are being displayed does not suit then your choice is to find a theme that treats this function as you wish it to. Here’s a link to theme reviews that may help you locate one that suits http://internetducttape.com/tools/wordpress/wordpress-theme-reviews/
As for me, I’m interested to know which theme you are using because I may switch to it. Your photo blog is different than mine. I strongly prefer a theme that presents me with linked titles when doing a category search as opposed to pages and pages of full blog posts.
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Thank you for the quick response. I guess that explains why I couldn’t find the option.
It would be useful if this could be a preference feature in the dashboard presentation, so a user can pick what gets displayed on the category page, without having to abandon a theme or having to create their own.
I come from a blog solution which allows the user to select how many entries are displayed and how per page type (blog page, category page, entry page) through preferences. Without needing to switch themes.
Could this be added as an extras option within a theme package?
Might WordPress consider this functionality?
As it stands it looks like I would need to pay extra to be able to modify the preset theme I like … or create my own.
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I think you added extra info to your reply :)
Right now I’m doing a little WordPress test blog with MistyLook, to gain a little experience with WP. You can see it through the username.wordpress.com. The reason I picked it was because the other two single column ones were locked at 450px wide main column … and I had already cropped some photos at 500px wide. Plus Mistylook added a little photo frame.
My primary goal with any site is really to minimize clicking for the viewer. Easy navigation. Limited file sizes for fast page loading.
My preference for longer entries (multiple images, long texts, instructions of some type, reviews) is to present a single or few paragraph abstract, then add a read more link to full entry.
It could be that WP is limited / not flexible enough in this regard.
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Limited file sizes and very large images are more or less opposites, though.
You can change those parameters with the CSS upgrade IF you know how to read and adapt CSS. Otherwise, because of the nature of WordPress.com, you can’t do that; you can do it with an independently hosted WordPress install, though, if you know how to code it.
WordPress.com blogs share their “innards” meaning that all blogs using the same theme use the same backbone; if one person were to change it, they would change it for everyone. This means we are limited in the customizations we can do without the CSS upgrade, and even to some extent limited WITH the upgrade.
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