Show post description as summary in homepage

[alastor2831]

By default the theme takes the first paragraph or so of a post and uses it as the summary with the {{ .Summary }} variable, which is printed in the homepage

I would like to write my own summary instead. So far I tried setting both a description field and a summary field in the YAML but nothing really changed.

---
description : "some text"
summary : "some other text"
---

Any idea?

[appernetic]

Have you tried with a large first letter? Another solution is to add a description parameter. You can do that by overriding templates in your root layouts folder, which is the best practice for customization.

[alastor2831]

Not sure what you mean by "large first letter", but I found a working solution on Yihui's blog.

All I did was pasting the code he posted over the {{ .Summary }} line in /layouts/partials/portfolio.html . This way if you have a field description in the YAML it will be displayed in the homepage under the title.

[appernetic]

Ok, great that you found a solution!

Can you post the code here?