[Drewmikita]

Hello! I am using catch everest Pro theme. I love it!

So I have a page for our blogs, I want it just to show a summary and not the full article on the blogs page. I have clicked on the the setting “reading” and changed it just summary and nothing has changed. I am guessing this is because it is not my home page where the blog posts appear. Please let me know how I can change this.

I am very new to all of this so please be as basic as possible! Here is my link, thanks so much.

http://verticalrunnerbreckenridge.com/running-blogs/

Also, I have another website that I own, can I upload the pro version to it? Does Pro help your SEO?

[Sakin]

@Drewmikita: Thanks for your appreciation. In the that page, I see that you have assigned page template as Blog. That is why the theme options settings is not working. You can just make that page template to “Default Template”. Then you will say that this page will not show as Blog. There is setting to show this page as blog.
Just go to “Settings => Readings” and in “Front page displays” click on “A static page (select below)” then choose the page in “Posts page:” and save changes.

[Drewmikita]

Ok, thanks for your reply. The only problem is this is not my homepage, the running-blog is a page but not the homepage, will this still apply? Thanks again for all your help!

[Sakin]

@Drewmikita: Yes this will work. In “Settings => Reading” you have “Front page” and “Posts page”. Front page is to display static page in Home and Post page is to select the page which will display your blog.

[Drewmikita]

So here is what I have done:

Changed the page from Blog to Default Template

Changed the settings–> reading to have “Home” as the static page. Listed “Run Blogs” as the Posts Page. I selected “Summary” instead of “full-text” I am still getting the whole articles on there.

Let me know other possible thoughts to get it to just be a summary of the posts. Thanks so much Sakin, you are so helpful!

[Sakin]

@Drewmikita: Strange as I just tested in my server and it’s showing excerpt. Maybe some cache issue, can you try changing the “Content Layout” from “Appearance => Theme Options => Layout Options” one time. Also I see that you are using old version of Catch Everest Pro. Can you update as well.

[Drewmikita]

Sakin,

Do I need to do anything before I update my theme? I don’t want to lose anything I have already done?

[Sakin]

@Drewmikita: You will not loose anything is you haven’t edit any core theme files such as index.php, functions.php, style.css and so on. All your edits from Theme Options will be safe.

[Drewmikita]

Thanks so much, your last idea worked to get the blog summary! Thanks so much! Also, can you direct me on where to get the update files? It is not telling me that I have an update available for that theme.

[Sakin]

@Drewmikita: You can check out instructions at http://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/catch-everest-pro/ and if you want assistant then you can contact our sales team at http://catchthemes.com/contact-us/

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