Academica theme display question

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  fredrickland · Member · Jan 19, 2015 at 9:35 pm

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  The home page of my blog displays all my blogs in one long chain. I would like to have only the title and the first 4 or 5 lines displayed. That way the readers can quickly browse through them and click on the one they would like to read.

  How do I do that?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 19, 2015 at 9:38 pm

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  The setting here > Settings > Reading is only for the RSS Feed summary and does not affect the posts.

  If you want to display only excerpts on the front page of the blog followed by read more links, you can insert “the more tag” into each post prior to publication.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

  Alternatively, you can switch to using a theme that automatically displays front page excerpts. This is a list of active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content. Here are the themes that do provide that feature > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410

  To control the number of posts displayed on the front page go to > Dashboard > Settings > Reading
  Blog pages show at most _ posts
  “save changes”