Title: Automatic Excerpts???
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Automatic Excerpts???

 *  [mstecker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mstecker/)
 * (@mstecker)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-excerpts/)
 * Is there any way to have it take my postings and create automatically an excerpt
   for the homepage?
    Something like this? Post Title (posted on date) Posting starts
   here blah blah blah blah…. (click for more) I’ve searched around and all I can
   find is to use the excerpt feature, but what I want is to take the first 10 lines
   or so from the posting and then have the user click for more. Also, if the posting
   is very short, I don’t want the “click for more” thing to show up…. Any help 
   would be awesome! Thanks

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-excerpts/#post-110529)
 * Above the edit area – the row of boxes.
    Click the ‘more’ tag when and where 
   you want it ?
 *  Thread Starter [mstecker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mstecker/)
 * (@mstecker)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-excerpts/#post-110539)
 * never knew that before! that works…. doesn’t do quite exactly what I wanted (
   since I wanted it to be automatically done, but hey… I can’t always get what 
   I want right?) Thanks!
 *  [brianpeat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianpeat/)
 * (@brianpeat)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-excerpts/#post-111096)
 * Any idea how to:
    1. Change the text of the More to Read More… 2. Find the “loop”
   for the full page version of the story, so I can incorporate it into my own web
   page? As it is now, I have a working version on my normal web page (Well, a .
   php version of my web page), but when you click More, it takes you to a varient
   of the Index.php page. I’m thinking I have a long stretch of code hacking ahead
   of me, but I’m hoping not. Maybe it’s as easy as finding where the More code 
   is burried and redirect it to a new page with a modified “loop” on it?
 *  [Wybe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wybe/)
 * (@wybe)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-excerpts/#post-111100)
 * that is exactly what it already does when you don´t fill in a summary when posting.
   Also, it will end after x amount of *characters* instead of lines, i believe.

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