Post excerpt question

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    filmpolice · Member ·

    Good day friends!

    Takashi’s TwentyFourteen theme is really doing it for me, except I write a lot of lengthy posts which won’t look good at my homepage. I’d like to know if there’s a way to work around this.

    If I get the custom upgrade–I haven’t, but am thinking about it–will I be able to tweak a code or two for this?

    I’m aware on the work around of adding the “more” tag in the WYSIWYG editor, but I have hundreds of posts and haven’t the time to edit all of them. I’m afraid I’m quite lazy too in adding those prior to publishing.

    Thanks in advance! :)

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    rachelmcr · Member ·

    Hi there,

    The Custom Design upgrade will let you change the look of your site, but it doesn’t give you access to the theme files. That means you won’t be able to change whether the theme shows an excerpt or the full post on the main blog page — that’s part of how the theme itself is built.

    The only option for displaying just an excerpt in this case is to use the More Tag. If you want to remove all of the post content from the home page, so there isn’t even an excerpt, you could do that with custom CSS (part of the custom design upgrade) like this:

    .entry-content {
display: none;
}

    If you have any other questions about CSS, most of our CSS support is done in our CSS customization forum here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization/

    You can post CSS questions in that forum, and the expert staff and volunteers there can help guide you to a solution. :)

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    filmpolice · Member ·

    That’s a bummer, having to run through all my posts. If I get lazy I’ll maybe look into self-hosting. Thanks! :)

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