Which function is the simplest and most versatile when you want to include extracts rather than entire posts on pages?

I want to explore whether to show whole posts or selected extracts of posts. This applies to what I shall call a Group page – any page which shows a set of posts rather than a single post (Category pages or Archive pages or the Blog index page).

Having dug into the documentation and solved some mysteries regarding the header of the Default theme and the version of code used in the Connections theme, I’ve made a lot of progress with that list of early first steps.

I’ve dug more deeply into the WordPress code and documentation and I’ve learned the importance of knowing which version you are reading about v which version you are using

I want to set up a template specifically for the Growing a Website category, which shows items in date order (oldest first) rather than reverse date order (newest first). First, I need to create a category template with the name category-n.php (where n is the numeric id of the particular category, found by looking at the […]

A few things I want to test and do on this website: Edit the templates – single, archive, category, post(?) to make the layout more like I want. In particular, I want to remove references to comments and “posted by” and just show which category something is in (and also, perhaps, date and time).  Done, for […]

What I want is an updateable home page and a set of subsidiary pages, including a subsidiary blog (with the typical blog front page). It seems that this combination is not formally supported within WordPress.  So, there are a few options I can choose from: Use the WordPress blog home page as my home page and modify […]

Aiming for this structure for my “typical” website:- Updatable home page – top level Other “static” pages such as about, contact, links, services – these are the second level items Perhaps some sub-pages to the static pages, such as detail about individual services – these would be third level Blog – also a second level […]

If you have been following these posts, you’ll have seen that my home page has looked rather fragmented for a day. I have been experimenting with the layout:- copying a theme and then modifying it for my own use creating a new home page template, based on the index page but modified creating a new footer creating a […]

Reading lots of the WordPress lessons and finding out how to do a few things as I go.  I’ve now made my Links page work by use of templates, enabled inclusion of email address without typing it in and discovered how to split a post.