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11 May 2016 at 19:44 #11501

maurice
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Hi… so I figured out how to display categories using the structure:

http://www.xxx.com/news/category/xxxx/

But the page that displays shows the entire news articles from everything in that category. Is there a way to have it show just the excerpts and then click them to go into the individual news article?

Thanks!

11 May 2016 at 19:47 #11502

Bartosz
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Yes @maurice,

That’s the default behciour of many themes, including default WordPress themes.
You should have a look at category.php file in your theme – there should be the_excerpt() function that does just that.

12 May 2016 at 00:35 #11506

maurice
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Thanks for the quick reply.

I am not a super experienced PHP coder. I can make code changes in our child theme as directed, but I am not too adept at writing changes from scratch. Do you have any advice on how to make the default here be excerpts? Is there a simple code mod that won’t affect the rest of my site?

Thanks.
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