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Show Full Post on Genesis Home Page & Excerpts on All Archives

If you go to Genesis > Theme Settings > Content Archives, you can select either full content or excerpts.

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The only problem is, these options will affect any blog listings page, including archive, author, blog, category, search, and tag pages.

What if you want full post content on one archive and excerpts on another?

To display full post content on your home page and excerpts on all other archives, simply:

  1. Create a new front-page.php file using a code editor like Notepad++
  2. Copy and paste the PHP code below into your new front-page.php file
  3. Save and upload the file to the root directory of your child themes folder.

If your theme already includes a front-page.php, home.php or index.php file, add the following code to it before the closing genesis(); tag.

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  1. This doesn’t work for me. When I click on excerpts the front-page also gets excerpts. I have created a front-page.php and pasted the first code in your tutorial.

    What I want is full posts on front-page AND on all the pages I reach via pagination on front-page and following pages.
    I do not want featured images on front-page and following pages, but I want featured images on archive pages.
    And I would like to get rid of the extra title I get on the first page – which is a copy of the first entry.

  2. Hi Brad,
    I’m using Gallery Pro and would like to have excerpts on the front page / homepage and full content on the blog page. Can you help with this?
    Thanks,
    Linda

  4. Brad-Following up from the Studiopress forum regarding this site:
    http://www.SimplyShellie.com

    I wanted full posts on the home page and excerpts on all archives pages. I implemented the “alternate solution” above and no changes occurred on the site. Any insight would be appreciated.

        • Add this at the end of your functions file using a code editor. Assumes you’re set the Genesis > Theme Settings > Content Archives to show excerpts:

          remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' );
remove_action( 'genesis_post_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' );
add_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'full_post_content' );
add_action( 'genesis_post_content', 'full_post_content' );
function full_post_content() {
	if ( is_home() ) {
                the_content( __( '[Read more...]', 'genesis' ) );
} 
else {
        genesis_do_post_content();
    }
}

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