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  mgray12 · Member · Jun 20, 2015 at 11:00 am

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  I am trying to get my blog to display only first paragraph or so of my posts, but homepage shows the entire posts in a long string. I have tried to amend the display but it does not take. Any suggestions?

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  timethief · Member · Jun 20, 2015 at 3:06 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/

  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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  mgray12 · Member · Jun 20, 2015 at 3:15 pm

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  Thanks so much for explaining. I could not figure out why the reading change would not work.