That setting is for the RSS feed only (www.domain.com/feed) it doesn’t handle how the theme presents the content for any theme.
If you look at lines 40-41 of content.php you see this
<?php if ( has_excerpt() && !is_single() ) {
the_excerpt(); ?>
So if a post has an excerpt and isn’t the post URL itself, display the excerpt otherwise lines 45-46 display the full content of the post.
So if you don’t want to create an excerpt for each page, you’d modify that content.php in your child theme to switch the_content() over into the_excerpt.
Or you could modify line 40 to go from
<?php if ( has_excerpt() && !is_single() ) {
to
<?php if ( !is_single() ) {
That way, as long as the URL isn’t the post URL itself, it will always show an excerpt of it.
Hi Shannon,
There’s no need to modify any templates.
If your blog page is displaying the whole Post, rather than just a ‘teaser’, all you need to do is insert add a ‘More’ tag (if using the Classic Editor) or a ‘More’ Block (if using the Block Editor), into your content, at the position where you’d like your teaser to end. e.g. Typically you’d insert it after the first couple of sentences or after the first paragraph.
The More tag and the More block work the same way. When you insert a ‘More’ tag (or More Block) into your Post, everything prior to that tag/Block is considered as the post ‘teaser’.
If you’d like to insert a completely custom excerpt (i.e. something that’s different to the text in your Post), then you can add your custom excerpt to the Excerpt panel and my theme will display that instead.
