In WordPress, there are two ways to display a summary of a post that I have found so far.  Depending on your scenario you can use either php the_content('Read more...'); ?>  or . I usually end up using both depending on the page that is being displayed and simply choose which with a "if, else" statement.  In most scenarios it is better to use the excerpt function but the default character length is either too short or too long.  The bad news for you is that there is no way to change this in WordPress without modifying some code.  The good news is that you can do this by simply modifying your theme's functions.php file. (more...)

As WordPress becomes more popular in the Web Designer circles (is that possible?), many of the functions we are looking for are simply not integrated by default.  One of the functions I searched for for a long time was a way to filter comments so pingbacks and trackbacks wouldn't be displayed on my posts or pages.  I personally don't care much for a list of websites linking to my post or article being shown and inundating the discussion with useless information. (more...)