If you’re a Genesis user and wondering why you are having a problem displaying post excerpts, then this little tutorial is for you. Naturally, you would think that the More shortcode option that is also available in your TinyMCE buttons may be the solution. While this does limit the content to view as an excerpt, you run into the problem that you would have to adjust all of your posts on the site.
The next option you would probably turn to is a plugin. This could work, but you don’t need it. It is already an available option in Genesis!
How To Display Excerpts in Genesis
1. Go to your Genesis Theme Settings.
2. Scroll down to the area called Content Archives.
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3. The first option is to either select to display full content or excerpts. Choose excerpts.
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4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the blue button to save the settings.
If you wish to adjust the excerpt limit, you can do so by adding to your theme’s functions.php file the following code.
//* Modify the length of post excerpts
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'genesis_post_excerpt_length' );
function genesis_post_excerpt_length( $length ) {
return 50; // pull first 50 words
}
Just adjust the number to what you need it to be. Thank you for StudioPress for sharing the above code snippet to adjust the excerpt length.
If you are a Genesis theme user, did you ever have this problem or are you still having it? Did this short tutorial help?
Hi Nile, I really want to know how to resize the sidebar width on Genesis Theme. I think it’s very difficult because Genesis different from other WordPress theme. Thank you for your useful information about Genesis and I really hope you are willing to answer.
Awesome Article ..
I saw this post yesterday but due to shortage of time i could not read it. Today i have read it.
i know well about this theme. It’s very useful to being a Successful Blogger. The more we can make our site popuplar with this theme & as Uphy Told in previous that Genesis different from other WordPress theme, he is right .
Hey Nile .. I liked your article & Thank you for sharing useful information to people. well .. I want to keep in touch with your Updates, So what should i do ?
Nile,
Great tutorial. Glad you had the link from the little pics to the big pic on another page. Perfect example of when to link the image to “media” when inserting pics into posts!
I am a big fan of Genesis now and learning all these little tips and tricks, thanks to people like you who love to share in the community.
And so glad you included the little code snippet, as well, especially since the client always wants it a slightly different way from the default!
Thanks again for sharing all your great stuff!
~ Jupiter Jim
Hi Nile,
Another great tip and one explained very well. I say that because even I can understand it he he!
You always have such great tutorials that are short and sweet and to the point. Now, I won’t do this myself, but I know if I need any help I’ll can call on you!
-Donna
hi thanks for this article this article reminded me of various aspects of genesis
I fully take credit for inspiring this tutorial.
I was working with a new skin for one of my sites and for the life of me couldn’t figure out how to do it. But as usual Nile saved the day.
I would like to take this opportunity to plug Nile’s Facebook group entitled “All About WordPress” you find if you search for it. Great group, great people, great resource.
I wish I had read this a few months ago when I was researching this exact issue. I love working with Genesis, but sometimes they make the seemingly simple, super difficult.
Saved in case I ever need it again!
I am new to Gensis, and I have recently started my venture with WordPress theme designing. It is cool, and easy though, but it is good to learn few things from others. Thanks for sharing awesome content.
thanks for posting this as it helps me a lot to display post explicitly on my blog based on genesis… 🙂
I recently installed Genesis on one of my blogs; however, have not yet had the time to really explore all of its features. When I set up the Genesis blog, I selected to display post content (up to 450 characters) but thought that I would switch to excerpts to see how I like that. Thanks.
Nice post! Thank you. It’s funny – I’d seen that option, but thought it applied to the archives, not the front page of my website. Thanks for helping out.
You can do this in any template you want that shows posts.