Single.php the_excerpt loads same as the_content not loading read more line

Question

Currently I'm using the the_excerpt on my frontpage which works perfectly. When the visiter goes to the post it first needs to read the first part of the story, see a featured image and then load the rest of the content.

Currently I have this:

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php the_post_thumbnail( 'blog-full', array( 'class' => 'img-responsive img-blog' ) ); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>

The problem is, the_excerpt loads the same first lines as the_content (it's a duplicate). I inserted a read more tag in WP backend, but it won't cut of the top and start after the tag line.

How do I get this working?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You could do this without having to code anything special. Enter your first piece of text into the Excerpt field in the admin edit screen for the post. Enter only the remaining text into the visual editor.

That way you can have the excerpt text on the site's front page and the "rest" of the text after the thumbnail on the post's single page.

Answer 2

As Documentation says about the_content function, it accepts two arguments. We don't need first, but the second will strip post excerpt from post content (everything before <!-- more --> tag). Your code should looks like this:

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php the_post_thumbnail( 'blog-full', array( 'class' => 'img-responsive img-blog' ) ); ?>
<?php the_content(null, true); ?>