Index and Archive Content Types

[Aaron]

Hello,

How can I set the home page (index) of my blog to full content but change archive, categories, and search results to display only an excerpt (or even just links)?

Thanks!

[Leo]

Hi there,

Set the customizer option to show excerpt, then add this PHP snippet to make the front page show full post:

add_filter( 'generate_show_excerpt', function( $show ) {
    if ( is_front_page() && is_home() ) {
        $show = false;
    }

    return $show;
} );

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Let me know if this helps 🙂

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[Aaron]

That did the trick, thanks Leo! 🙂

As a follow up question, is there a way to change the “Blog pages show at most“ (under WordPress reading settings) to 5 for the home page, but some higher number for archives and search results?

[Leo]

That setting is handled by WordPress itself but something like this should help:
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/how-to-increase-post-snippets-on-a-category-page/#post-1035160

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[Aaron]

Hmm, that doesn’t seem to work for the search query results archives page (still stuck at 5), any ideas?

[Leo]

You will need to add the a if statement for the search query:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_Search_Result_Page

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[Aaron]

I’m no PhP expert, but would this snippet work?

function number_of_posts_on_archive($query){
    if ($query->is_search && is_archive) {
            $query->set('posts_per_page', 25);
   }
    return $query;
}
 
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'number_of_posts_on_archive');

[Leo]

Should be ok. Give it a shot first?

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[Aaron]

It works for search, but not archive. I think my “&&” is somehow wrong.

The below is a less elegant solution, but I created three separate functions and it seems to work.

function number_of_posts_on_author($query){
    if ($query->is_author) {
            $query->set('posts_per_page', 25);
   }
    return $query;
}
 
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'number_of_posts_on_author'); 

function number_of_posts_on_search($query){
    if ($query->is_search) {
            $query->set('posts_per_page', 25);
   }
    return $query;
}
 
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'number_of_posts_on_search');

function number_of_posts_on_archive($query){
    if ($query->is_archive) {
            $query->set('posts_per_page', 25);
   }
    return $query;
}
 
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'number_of_posts_on_archive');

[Leo]

Weird that the && doesn’t work.

Should be able to combine them like this at least:

function number_of_posts_on_archive($query){
    if ($query->is_archive) {
            $query->set('posts_per_page', 25);
    }

    if ($query->is_search) {
            $query->set('posts_per_page', 25);
    }

    if ($query->is_author) {
            $query->set('posts_per_page', 25);
    }
 
    return $query;
}
 
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'number_of_posts_on_archive');

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[Aaron]

Thanks Leo, and I think I figured it out. We can’t use the “&&” operator in this instance and should be using “||”

https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.logical.php

This seems to work:

function number_of_posts_on_archive($query){
    if ($query->is_search || is_archive || is_author) {
            $query->set('posts_per_page', 25);
   }
    return $query;
}
 
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'number_of_posts_on_archive');

[Leo]

Ahh yeah right. It should be or instead of and for sure.

Good catch!

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