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  paybay22 · Member · May 26, 2015 at 10:02 pm

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  Hello! I am having some difficulty with a blog I am trying to start, and I wanted to know if this company was even able to do what I need on the specific plan I am using. I am using Word Press’ free plan and I want to customize my home-page so that when I post a blog it shows up as a link with a short summary, but without all of the text in the blog. Every time I make a post it shows up as a link, with all of the text from the post included.I would also like to make it so that a specific amount of posts shows up on the home page at one time. I am trying to avoid clutter from too many blog posts on my homepage in the future. Is this something that is able to be done, if so I could really use some help. Thanks for your time!

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  timethief · Member · May 26, 2015 at 10:04 pm

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  You can set your RSS Feed to summary. 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

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  timethief · Member · May 26, 2015 at 10:05 pm

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  You control how many posts display on the front page here > Dashboard > Settings > Reading

  Blog pages show at most _ posts
  “save changes”

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  timethief · Member · May 26, 2015 at 10:07 pm

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  Also note the detailed them description page with set up instructions is found here https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/hemingway-rewritten/ and the live demo site is at http://hemingwayrewrittendemo.wordpress.com/

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  paybay22 · Member · May 26, 2015 at 10:14 pm

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  Thanks so much! This is exactly what I needed. I’m so thankful for your help!

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  timethief · Member · May 26, 2015 at 10:19 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes doe happy blogging.