I'm currently making my first blog website, I'm using WordPress. Is there a way to display posts like this site is doing in that short hand clean format?

 

Anyone know of a plugin or advice on how to do that?

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt

 

Any other methods than this?

No, that's the way Wordpress handles things.

You can use a PHP function...

 

<?php
substr(the_content(''), 500);
?>

 

Horrible method but you can get it to show full words if you work in conjuntion with other PHP functions.

 

500, being the amount of character to display.

You can use a PHP function...

 

<?php
substr(the_content(''), 500);
?>

 

Horrible method but you can get it to show full words if you work in conjuntion with other PHP functions.

 

500, being the amount of character to display.

I was asking for anotehr method because I couldnt make sense of that first one lol

 

I found the right document to edit but didn't understand how to edit it

Bump?

You mean in your index.php file yeah?

 

Just replace <?php the_content(); ?> with <?php the_excerpt(); ?>

 

and have a good read here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt

I got to grips with using excerpt but I would like to know if its possible to display posts like the "Latest Gaming News" section on this site. What do I need to know to achieve that?

You pop each post in a category and then use the query_posts function before the loop to show posts from a certain category.