Baskerville theme – not showing blog summaries on front page

• 

  idrawcomics · Member · Jul 7, 2015 at 3:07 am

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  I just switched to the Baskerville theme and my front page now shows the full blog posts rather than the summaries. I checked to make sure that I’d checked summary posts in my feed, and even used an excerpt paragraph on a post page, but nothing I’ve tried has changed how the front page displays the posts.

  Does anyone have a suggestion? Thank you.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

• 

  turkey25 · Member · Jul 8, 2015 at 9:35 am

  • Copy link

  I am also having this problem. Would love to be able to use excerpts with this theme

• 

  fkrebs23 · Member · Jul 11, 2015 at 10:50 pm

  • Copy link

  Same here. Posts don’t get summarized on the front page. Each post is full length.

• 

  timethief · Member · Jul 11, 2015 at 11:02 pm

  • Copy link

  Your RSS feed settings have zero to do with the front page display.

  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/

  The read more tag can be inserted once only into any post to change the front page or main page for posts display from full post to an excerpt. The split in the ext does not display to you in preview mode but it will be there after the post is published.

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

  For other ways to splitting content in posts see > https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/