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Have you ever wanted to modify your post listings in your WordPress blog in such a way so that you have only your first post showing the full content and the others, their excerpts? Displaying the full content of each post on the front page isn’t exactly considered “user friendly”.

It seems that wordpress has released their newest update - wordpress 2.6. So far I’ve upgraded to wordpress 2.6, without any hitches, most of my plugins seem to work. Here’s a list of new Wordpress 2.6 features from the official wordpress blog: Version/revision saves a copy of a post every time

Not really sure what (not who) Ajax is? Quoting Wikipedia: Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML), or AJAX, is a group of interrelated web development techniques used for creating interactive web applications or rich Internet applications.

Not really sure what (not who) Ajax is? Quoting Wikipedia: Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML), or AJAX, is a group of interrelated web development techniques used for creating interactive web applications or rich Internet applications.

There were several old combinations that worked well together but since WordPress 2.3 came out many of them stopped working properly or stopped working altogether. Fear not there are replacements out there. Unlike many of the regurgitated idiot lists currently out there, everything I list will work in WordPress 2.5 the only version of the blog software you should be running.

WordPress Excerpt Editor Excerpt Editor lets you easily make post excerpts from all your posts and pages. With a host of options that will allow you to customize the excerpts including one to let you show the latest post in its entirety and the rest in excerpt or even giving you the entire home page as full posts while the rest are excerpted.

WordPress Excerpt Editor Excerpt Editor lets you easily make post excerpts from all your posts and pages. With a host of options that will allow you to customize the excerpts including one to let you show the latest post in its entirety and the rest in excerpt or even giving you the entire home page as full posts while the rest are excerpted.

WordPress Excerpt Editor Excerpt Editor lets you easily make post excerpts from all your posts and pages. With a host of options that will allow you to customize the excerpts including one to let you show the latest post in its entirety and the rest in excerpt or even giving you the entire home page as full posts while the rest are excerpted.

I just finished installing the Homepage Excerpts Plugin on the blog. I’ve noted before that my Wordpress technical abilities are rather limited, so I was a little bit nervous about trying to install a plugin as I’ve never done so before. First, the story. I noticed a blurb about the plugin on the John Cow website earlier today.

There are two ways to put post excerpts on your main page in WordPress. They are: The post excerpt function in WordPress The “More” tag Which is the best way to use excerpts for your blog? Can you tell which I am using? I’ll let you know at the end of this post. Both have advantages and disadvantages.