In short. Divi separates full-post display, defined excerpts, archive counts, and WordPress feed output across different settings.
Definition: Divi's full-post display on an index or archive listing is controlled by more than one setting. Blog Style Mode changes the theme's default from truncated previews to full posts on index pages, while the Blog module and WordPress Reading Settings provide separate controls for excerpts, content length, page counts, and feeds.
Key facts
- Elegant Themes documents Blog Style Mode as the switch that changes Divi's default truncated previews on index or homepages to full posts. Divi 5 Theme Options
- Divi 5's Content options offer Show Excerpt or Show Content, can use manually defined excerpts, and set the default excerpt length to 270 characters. Understanding the Content Option Group in Divi 5
- WordPress places its Full text and Excerpt choices under the setting for each article in a syndication feed, while the number of posts per page is controlled separately by Blog pages show at most. Settings Reading screen
What does Blog Style Mode change?
Elegant Themes places Blog Style Mode at Divi → Theme Options → General → General in its Divi 5 documentation. The page says that the theme truncates posts on index or homepages by default to create post previews. Activating the option makes posts display in full on index pages such as a traditional blog.
The same Theme Options page lists Number of Posts displayed on Archive pages as a separate control. It sets how many recent articles appear on archive pages and works independently of the Settings → Reading options in WordPress. That setting changes the number of listed posts; Blog Style Mode changes the amount of post text shown in the documented index view.
How do defined excerpts and full content interact?
The Divi 5 Content option group is opened from a module's settings by selecting the Content tab and then Content. Its Content Length choice has two values: Show Excerpt, which displays a summary of the post, and Show Content, which displays the full post content.
Use Post Excerpts controls whether the module uses manually defined excerpts. When that option is disabled, the documentation says that Divi generates excerpts automatically. Excerpt Length sets the character limit, with a default of 270 characters. The same option group also documents Post Count and Included Categories, so the module can control both which posts appear and how much text accompanies each post.
This module-level control is distinct from the site-wide Blog Style Mode switch. A listing built with the Blog module therefore has a content-length choice in the module settings, while the theme option documents the default behavior for index pages.
Which defaults belong to WordPress?
WordPress's Settings Reading documentation covers the front page, the Posts page, and syndication feeds. The Your latest posts choice displays recent posts on the blog home page, and Blog pages show at most sets the number of posts displayed per page.
The feed control appears under For each article in a feed, show. Full text includes the full content of each post in the feed, while Excerpt includes an excerpt and can save bandwidth. This is a feed output setting. Divi separately documents its archive-page post count and its index-page text behavior, so changing the WordPress feed choice does not describe the Divi archive controls.
Related terms
- How do I choose full text or excerpts in WordPress feeds?
- How do I choose a static homepage in WordPress?
- BlogPosting structured data
FAQ
How do you show full posts in Divi's standard index view?
Open Divi → Theme Options → General → General and enable Blog Style Mode. Elegant Themes documents that Divi truncates posts on index or homepages by default and that this option displays posts in full.
How do you use a defined excerpt in a Divi feed?
Choose Show Excerpt and enable Use Post Excerpts. Divi's documentation says that disabling Use Post Excerpts generates excerpts automatically, and that the default excerpt length is 270 characters.
Does WordPress's Full text option make Divi archive pages full length?
WordPress documents Full text under the feed setting and describes it as including the full content of each post in a feed. Divi separately documents Blog Style Mode for index pages and its own archive-page count, so the controls have different scopes.
Sources
- Elegant Themes Help Center, "Divi 5 Theme Options", 18 September 2026
- Elegant Themes Help Center, "Understanding the Content Option Group in Divi 5", 9 March 2026
- WordPress.org, "Settings Reading screen", 8 June 2024
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