Blog Post Snippets on HP & Cat Pages

[mj775]

I want my blog's category pages to have the ability to be indexed and rank, therefore I don't want to noindex these pages. My strategy is to create original snippets for each post on these pages but I don't know what Wordpress plugin or configuration I can use to create original snippet content on the Homepage and Category pages that will not show up within the blog post text itself.

Any suggestions?

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Inside the wordpress loop on the homepage/category/archive theme pages. right now it probably has the_content() --> replace this with the_excerpt()

[mj775]

Where exactly is that code placed in the template?

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Ah, I misunderstood. You probably want post excerpts.

Go to a post in dashboard > top right click on "Screen Options" > check the box that says "Excerpts" > textarea box will appear below post textarea. You can pop in your unique text there and call it via  (); ?> from within the template file.

[mj775]

I see that I can create a description for each category but I am trying to create unique snippets for each blog post. These blog post snippets are displayed on the Homepage, Category page and Archive pages of the blog. I want each blog post snippet to be unique and not be part of the blog post itself.

Any ideas?

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Go the the category creation page in the dashboard and there is an option to create descriptions for each category (your unique snippets).

Then edit your category theme file to include the following code wherever you want the description to be displayed.