By default, WordPress displays full post on the homepage and category pages. However, some users prefer their posts to be published in the form of excerpt (partial post), making their blogs look more decent. In fact, there are some benefits of publishing posts in excerpt form. Imaging if your visitors load a page which has lots of images, it can significantly impact your page load time. By using excerpt, you can simply show a short description of the article and let visitors view the post on single post page.

Other than that, excerpt also helps to increase page view count. Imaging if you don’t use the excerpt, your visitors will just read the post on the homepage or category pages. By adding it this way, they will go to the original post. That is 2 page views instead of 1. Without further ado, let us show you 2 simple tutorials on how to display post excerpts in your WordPress blog. Read more…