Make home page appear as blog with full post showing

[rebeltraders]

Looking to use 'streamline' but wish to have the home page display posts in a traditional 'blog' format. Where or how do I make the necessary changes so that posts show fully and not with a 'read more'.

Kind regards. Chuck

[Debra]

rename page_blog as home.php or copy the code from archive.php and replace the code on home.php and save.

[rebeltraders]

Thank you for the suggestion. However it did not work .. The image below is what I now get after I copied the archive.php code over to home.php.[attachment=0:2woikrl3]6-21-2009 9-04-23 PM.png[/attachment:2woikrl3]

[Debra]

that's because you didn't copy archives.php you copied page_archives.php Please copy the correct file.

[rebeltraders]

Thank you Debra..

You are correct, I copied the wrong one. Now I need to get the posts to be 'expanded' instead of only showing excerpts. Where can I change that function?

Kind regards...[attachment=0:3eqkcvxn]6-21-2009 9-59-43 PM.png[/attachment:3eqkcvxn]

[Debra]

open your new home.php

find

<?php the_excerpt(__('Read more', 'studiopress'));?>

replace with

<?php the_content(__('Read more', 'studiopress'));?>

[rebeltraders]

Hi Debra..

Thank you so much!

One other question if I may please.

By doing what I did (moving the archive.php to the home.php) have I impacted any of the SEO features? In other words, does the code for the archive page have less SEO emphasis and by making that code my home page will I have cut my SEO down? If so, what should I change to restore it.

I am VERY interested in this theme because of the recent involvement with Yoast to make the theme more SEO ready, and I don't want to mess that up :)

Kind regards,
Chuck