How to re-format post teasers on home page

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Originally Posted by kensmith39

How can I increase the number of characters in the teasers so I can fill out the extra line and make them look better?

Open home.php and find the_content_limit tag, adjsut the number in parenthesis to the amount of characters you want included.

Originally Posted by kensmith39

Some teasers end with a "Read more" link and some don't. How can I make all teasers uniformly end with 3 leader dots and then [More...]?

Write more words in the post. If the post content is less than the amount specified in the content limit tag then wordpress takes over and places the arrow.

Originally Posted by kensmith39

How can I change the link to all posts in a section to not read "Read more posts from (Category)", which often creates 2 lines with a widow, but, instead, read "Read more posts from this section" and use under all sections to keep to 1 line?

Open home.php and do a search/replace for the text you want to change. And add it to homepageleft/right by copying the code form homepagebottom.

Originally Posted by kensmith39

Is it possible to change the headline for each teaser to something different from the actual post headline? That way I could fill out the 2 lines for the teaser headline to look good and still keep the actual post headline the same.

You could replace the title_tag link with a custom field call. You can refer to the thumb code to get a rough idea of how that is done.

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