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robainya

Mar 8 2004, 01:58 PM

Can anyone tell me what i need to do to make only the "excerpt" text show up on the home page?

thanks!

LisaJill

Mar 8 2004, 02:03 PM

Replace

CODE

with

CODE

in your Main Index template (log in, manage weblog, click templates, click "Main Index Template")

does that help?

robainya

Mar 8 2004, 02:10 PM

Yes! that worked. But now I don't know how to link it to the rest of the entry??

thanks!

LisaJill

Mar 8 2004, 02:13 PM

In the default main index template, the time is the permalink to the main post. If you want it to be something else, you can move the surrounded a hrefs to wherever you want within the mtentries container....

thats not very exact, I know.. but does it get you started?

robainya

Mar 8 2004, 02:20 PM

I'm pretty clueless. Here is what the code says (in the main index template):

CODE

Can you tell me what i need to change?

EDITED to add CODE tags around code sample.

LisaJill

Mar 8 2004, 02:21 PM

you need to click the code button up above, THEN paste your code, then click it again - so I can see it. =)

robainya

Mar 8 2004, 02:23 PM

See, i told you i'm clueless

CODE

<MTEntryExcerpt>

    <MTEntryIfExtended>
    <span class="extended"><a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>#more">Continue reading "<$MTEntryTitle$>"</a></span><br />
    </MTEntryIfExtended>

LisaJill

Mar 8 2004, 02:26 PM

Ok, bear with me.

In your main index template, find MTEntries

copy from there down to /MTEntries (surrounded by greater and less than signs)

then put that in here using the code buttons.

and post what you would like to use as the link to the full article =)

robainya

Mar 8 2004, 02:41 PM

Okay. Here it is:

CODE

<MTEntries>
<$MTEntryTrackbackData$>

    <MTDateHeader>
    <h2 class="date">
    <$MTEntryDate format="%x"$>
    </h2>
    </MTDateHeader>

    <div class="blogbody">

    <a name="<$MTEntryID pad="1"$>"></a>
    <h3 class="title"><$MTEntryTitle$></h3>


<MTEntryExcerpt>

    <MTEntryIfExtended>
    <span class="extended"><a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>#more">Continue reading "<$MTEntryTitle$>"</a></span><br />
    </MTEntryIfExtended>

    <div class="posted">Posted by <$MTEntryAuthor$> at <a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"><$MTEntryDate format="%X"$></a>
    <MTEntryIfAllowComments>
    | <a href="<$MTCGIPath$><$MTCommentScript$>?entry_id=<$MTEntryID$>" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (<$MTEntryCommentCount$>)</a>
    </MTEntryIfAllowComments>
    <MTEntryIfAllowPings>
    | <a href="<$MTCGIPath$><$MTTrackbackScript$>?__mode=view&entry_id=<$MTEntryID$>" onclick="OpenTrackback(this.href); return false">TrackBack (<$MTEntryTrackbackCount$>)</a>
    </MTEntryIfAllowPings>
    </div>

    </div>


</MTEntries>

The full article is at:

CODE

LisaJill

Mar 8 2004, 02:43 PM

This code, in the posted by line, is what creates the link to the full article:

CODE

at <a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"><$MTEntryDate format="%X"$></a>

You can move the

CODE

and replace ... with what you want to show as the link to the main article, if you want to change it....

does that help?

robainya

Mar 8 2004, 03:24 PM

Yes!!! Thanks LisaJill!

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