I am trying to get the full post to stop displaying after I click the excerpt. I have all the boxes set to "only excerpts" and the other to "0" yet when I click on the link to the post in the excerpt it shows the full post. I want it to only show the excerpt? Thanks

I assume that you are viewing the excerpts on the blog page. WordPress is designed that when you click on the link (the read more) it will bring you to the full post. Why would you want to click on an excerpt and only see the excerpt?

I just want to use it to post as a snippet. So yes I have the excerpt on the blog(home) page. Any way to do it?

thanks

but if you have excerpts on the home(blog) page, and I click on it and go to a page and only see the excerpt, how will someone ever see the full post?

I'm very unclear as to what you are trying to do.

I want them to click on the link from the excerpt back to my full post on another site.

* There is no point in using excerpts, if you dont plan on showing more.
you better just show the full post and forget about using an excerpt
an excerpt is an excerpt .. and nothing else ...

* if you want a link back to "where the visitor came from"
you need to either catch the HTTP referer field, as soon as someone enters your site, with some custom coding
and store it in a cookie or so, to make sure its not lost while the user might be clicking other links on your site
then use some custom coding to retrieve the referer from the cookie when the users clicks some "go back" link
but i think that is beyond the scope of this forum

* another, easier but not 100% fullproof option, would work be to use a javascript "go back" link
you could put a "go back" link in the footer under a post
ata > Edit Post/PAge Info Items > FOOTER: Single Post Pages

and add this:

<script type="text/javascript">document.write('&laquo; <a href="javascript:history.go(-1)">Click here to go back</a>')</script>

that would just send the visitor back to the previous page in his/her browser
same as manually hitting the "back button" in ones browser

Thanks, that makes sense. Somehow I overlooked the most obvious conclusion and all I had to do was turn the excerpt off!