Title: Excerpt Problem
Last modified: December 5, 2018

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# Excerpt Problem

 *  [Emi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenemi/)
 * (@jenemi)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-problem-8/)
 * Is there any kind of plugin or something to force excerpts to always be the full
   post? I’ve been importing a bunch of posts from various other social media, but
   they are all always excerpts with read more’s… And despite checking the settings,
   excerpt isn’t checked anywhere. It should be the full post.
 * Is there anything I can do to fix this?
 * As a note, it doesn’t seem to be a theme issue. I’ve tried multiple themes now
   and the issue persists, even with posts that are short enough to not need it (
   It’ll still get a … and some kind of “read more” link).
 * While some posts _should_ have it, most shouldn’t and I have no idea why they
   are all essentially getting this excerpt setting. I’d rather no excerpts at all
   than every post even if some make good use of them :/
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by [Emi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenemi/).
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   to see the link]_

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 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-problem-8/#post-10947689)
 * > force excerpts to always be the full post
 * That doesn’t even make sense.
 * I don’t know what you mean by “importing a bunch of posts from various other 
   social media”, but when a theme outputs a post on its own page, it shows the 
   full post (if it is paginated, it shows the current page). When a theme is outputting
   an archive page such as a category or the latest posts page, it has a choice 
   of using `the_excerpt()` or `the_content()`. The excerpt will always be either
   a manually created summary or an auto-generated (strip HTML tags and count to`
   excerpt_length` number of words) shortening of the full post. Showing the full
   content can also result in a Read More link, because the author can put `<!--
   more-->` in there to indicate how much to show, but that only applies to `the_content()`
   and archive pages.
 * Most themes use `the_excerpt()` because it’s a better experience for the user,
   and you don’t run afoul of the search engine’s duplicate content penalties.
 *  Thread Starter [Emi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenemi/)
 * (@jenemi)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-problem-8/#post-10947694)
 * For some reason, all posts on blog are in excerpt mode despite not being set 
   as such.
 * I know what excerpts are and why they exist, my problem is the fact that every
   post on the blog is somehow an excerpt despite me not using any <!–more–>’s in
   the post or having anything set for it to show up as an excerpt. All posts on
   the main page are just showing as excerpts automatically.
 * It’s not even the archive–it’s the main page itself. Every post can only be seen
   in full if viewed by itself for some reason.
 * And this is the only WordPress I’ve had that has this problem.
 *  [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * (@jnashhawkins)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-problem-8/#post-10948213)
 * Ask your theme creator [https://thememattic.com/](https://thememattic.com/) about
   how to set that.
 *  Thread Starter [Emi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenemi/)
 * (@jenemi)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-problem-8/#post-10948333)
 * As already mentioned, it happens regardless of theme. I’ve changed it to multiple
   themes just today and throughout the last few weeks and the issue is still happening.
 * Just in some, while it doesn’t have the read more, it’ll still have a “…” as 
   if there’s supposed to be and then nothing as you can see in the current theme(
   a default one) being used.
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by [Emi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenemi/).
 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-problem-8/#post-10951331)
 * > For some reason, all posts on blog are in excerpt mode despite not being set
   > as such.
 * There is no such setting. Some themes might have options you can choose how to
   display lists, but it is not a WordPress option. It is controlled by the theme.
   As you’ve found, most themes show excerpts.

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