I’m currently creating a new theme for my blog and I intend to make it in a magazine style manner.
So, to clarify the question in the title: what I want to do is to create a text assigned to the post, but not displayed in the post itself. Lets say that the user Tom writes a review of the movie Black Swan – what I want to be able to do is summarize that review in a sentence or two – and use that text as an “excerpt” on the front page.
Any ideas? It’s probably a lot harder than I think it is.
It’s not. I believe when you go to make a post, there’s a box just below it that says “Excerpt” Whatever you put in that box will only show up as the excerpt.
I tested it out and it works. You can view it on the website i’m currently developing here: http://www.kirschfamilycomputerservices.com/sam/wheresthefairness/
The first post. Note how the excerpt is different from the post itself!
Also, if you want to run it in a loop instead of making a post I think there’s a way to do that, too. check here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Excerpt
Good luck and hope this helped.
there is a field named Excerpt on the post edit page where you can enter your summary and to display make sure you use different template tags.
on the front page use
and on the post page use
this way you display two different things.