Should I switch to excerpts | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

I'm used to excerpts and it works well on Untemplater because we have multiple contributors.  It also works well for new readers who can quickly glance at our most recent posts and pick out what they want to read first. If a site is not doing excerpts my personal preference would be to see the comments listed at the bottom instead of having to click on the comments link after reading the entire post, but I suppose that would really make things long!

Barb Friedberg said:

Great thread, I've been wondering about this myself.

Question; How do you switch from full posts (which I have) to excerpts?

Thanks, Barb

I think that depends on your theme.

I use Atahualpa and I can indicate if and where I want to use excerpts.  Supposedly I can control the excerpt length as well but this doesn't seem be working in my current version.  I need to check into this again.

What I often do us manually place the Read More wordpress function into a longer post.  Our tips are so short excerpts don't make sense and as a reader i'd likely be annoyed if someone forced to click read more on them.  But other articles are usually 1000-1800 words long – it is nice to get better metrics on who is reading those articles and excerpts help.

Barb I used Evermore, its a plugin and very easy to use…it has to be if I didnt have any issues lol.  It automatically turns all your full posts in excerpts.