Title: using excerpt function breaks sidebar
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# using excerpt function breaks sidebar

 *  [poppiness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poppiness/)
 * (@poppiness)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-excerpt-function-breaks-sidebar/)
 * I’m a newbie hacking my way through this.
 * Someone else created my website for me and integrated my blog into the website
   then turned it over to me to do anything else I wanted. So far so good. I’ve 
   been able to do most things I want with the blog except to get the excerpt function
   working.
 * The theme is basic simplicity.
 * What I tried doing was editing the index file and replacing “content” with “excerpt”
   which worked fine to pull up the excerpts except that it made my sidebar disappear
   and the text overflowed to the far edge of the sidebar.
 * Here is the link to the site: http:www.susantaylorbrown/blog
 * Thank you for any thoughts on how to make it work and stay within the proper 
   area.

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-excerpt-function-breaks-sidebar/#post-2670724)
 * is this a paid theme?
 *  Thread Starter [poppiness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poppiness/)
 * (@poppiness)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-excerpt-function-breaks-sidebar/#post-2670727)
 * No, I believe the basic simplicity (that the designers used, not me) is a free
   one.
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-excerpt-function-breaks-sidebar/#post-2670729)
 * the reason I asked I could not find it ithe WordPress free theme directory.
 * If it is a paid theme, you want to contact the vendor.
 *  Thread Starter [poppiness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poppiness/)
 * (@poppiness)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-excerpt-function-breaks-sidebar/#post-2670731)
 * Yeah, I couldn’t find it there either but here’s the link/info on it:
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/basic-simplicity](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/basic-simplicity)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [poppiness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poppiness/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-excerpt-function-breaks-sidebar/#post-2670731)
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