I am new to WordPress. I got this template that I want to use for my site. The template link is here. By default this template allows you to put all sorts of plugins on the homepage. Problem is I don’t really want to style my blog the way the template comes. What I just want is to have the full details of my blog posts showing on the homepage and then the categories by the side. Does any know of any plugin that I can use to display blog posts full details instead of just lists (with or without thumbnails)
Displaying full details of blog posts on the homepage of a wordpress theme that does not allow it by default
Your homepage should use the file
index.phpfrom the theme (located inwp-content/themes/name_of_your_theme). Open it and search forthe_excerpt. It should be located in the Loop, as many things related to Posts in WordPress.If what you want to display in the homepage is the same thing than when a single post is displayed, then open
single.phpin the same directory. That’s the theme file used when displaying a single post. Search forthe_contentinside the Loop and see how it’s done. You want to do the same in index.php, more or less copypasting or replacing carefullythe_excerptbythe_content. Well, it’ll be a little harder than that (you’ve to understand what you remove, replace or copy) but that’s the idea.Relevant documentation in Codex: the_excerpt (esp. the 2nd paragraph) and Template Hierarchy (answers the questions related to which file is called for Homepage, single post, a category, a page, etc)