post immediately show up on the page

Thanks for the links.

Unfortunately with that theme, it's not going to. This is kind of hard to explain with out getting technical so please forgive me.

Wordpress uses two functions or methods to display the contents of a post. the_content and the_excerpt. the_content displays everything that's contained within a post. the_excerpt only displays a portion of the content, I believe the first 40 words. It also strips out anything extra like images, pictures and links. It just displays the basic words. The reasoning for this is because search engines hate repeated content. Usually when search engine spiders see the same content within a site over and over again, it'll ban the site. To get around that the software uses the two different methods to display post content. Some theme designers on their extra pages (like your category pages) use the the_excerpt method to get around the search engines dislike of duplicate content. You may have noted that this is done on your date content as well:

http://hastingsart.edublogs.org/2009/10/30/

There's really no way to get around this outside of changing themes. Some theme designers just use the the _content method to display content. I don't have a list handy though so I can't point you at one.

edit: Actually Anubis shows complete content it appears:

http://drmike.edublogs.org/category/test-post/page/2/

I hope this helps,
-drmike

Not a problem. Maybe Sue will add to her ever growing list of topics which themes display their content with which functions. :)

Heh Actually I thought we had a member step up and run through them for her. :)

Since James is going through the themes currently, mayke he can check for us. (Technical method: Run a grep for "the_excerpt(" within the theme directory and see how many times it shows up. You'll have to take into account dupes within theme subdirectories of course.)

I still think doing a grep, exporting out to a text file and running through it would be quicker.