Media is not showing on post page

Question

I'm building a wordpress website based on the theme "Bulk Shop".

Most of the content will be added as "post" and will be categorized into "next show", "last show", "music", "videos", etc.

https://boba-music.com/category/music/

https://boba-music.com/category/videos/

https://boba-music.com/category/next-show/

Here are all posts collected (post page): https://boba-music.com/news/

My problem is, only title, text and the "read more" is shown on the category post pages, but pictures, soundcloud audio, youtube videos are not shown. Only if I click on read more.

I want to show the full content, e.g. all content until I add the "read more tag".

What do I do wrong or what do I need to change to see all the content?

Answer 1

You can either choose a theme that already shows full posts on Categories by default, or you can create a child theme:

1. Create a new folder under /wp-content/themes/ - the name is up to you, but for simplicity's sake, you may just want to call it themename-child. So if you're using the "twentysixteen" theme, call your folder twentysixteen-child.

2. Create a file called style.css in your folder. It will just need a couple of comments so WP recognizes your child theme, no actual styles are needed. You can name it anything you like (again, I suggest calling it a child so it's obvious) - the only requirement is "template" has to be the parent theme's folder. So for "twentysixteen":

/* Theme Name: WPSE custom child theme Template: twentysixteen */

3. Look through the theme files to find the archive. Most themes have a file called category.php but if that doesn't exist you may need archive.php. You are looking for a call to the_excerpt() which, if it is not in category.php or archive.php, may be in a template part such as archive-content.php - that would be called as get_template_part() inside of archive.php or content.php. Once you identify which one controls your categories - which you can find by replacing the_excerpt() with the_content() temporarily - copy that whole file into your child theme. Then, wherever inside that file there is a call to the_excerpt() just replace that with the_content() to display the full content instead of an excerpt. Make sure to change the parent theme file back - you don't want to edit parent theme files directly, as when they update, your changes are overwritten. By making all of your changes through a child theme, your changes will remain in effect.