Title: WordPress posts only showing summary
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress posts only showing summary

 *  [everythingred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/everythingred/)
 * (@everythingred)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-posts-only-showing-summary/)
 * I went to settings and have full text selected yet it only shows a 1 line summary.
   there’s nothing about this listed in theme options. anyone have a clue where 
   it could be in the editor? thanks
 * This is the index.php:
 * _[Code moderated as per the [Forum Rules](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code).
   Please use the [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/)]_

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 *  Thread Starter [everythingred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/everythingred/)
 * (@everythingred)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-posts-only-showing-summary/#post-2462263)
 * changed ‘excerpt’ to ‘content’ and it worked. hope that helped someone in the
   need in the future. sorry for post.
 *  [lunamedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lunamedia/)
 * (@lunamedia)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-posts-only-showing-summary/#post-2462269)
 * `<?php the_excerpt(); ?>`
 * will always return, as you’ve found, the automatically generated excerpt.
 * `<?php the_content(); ?>`
 * returns the whole post. This Codex page is a good primer on what various template
   tags do:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags)

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 * [excerpt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/excerpt/)
 * [full-text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/full-text/)
 * [summary](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/summary/)

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 * Last reply from: [lunamedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lunamedia/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-posts-only-showing-summary/#post-2462269)
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