Blog Feed Post Excerpt

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  writer0001 · Member · May 15, 2020 at 7:00 pm

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  On my blog (The Writing Website), I have selected ‘Limit feed to excerpt only’ in the Writing section of Settings, but whenever I check the Blog Feed, the blog posts aren’t limited to an excerpt with a ‘continue reading’ button, but have the whole post. It used to be correct (the number of posts per page – five – is still correct). How do I limit the posts to an excerpt?

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  writer0001 · Member · May 18, 2020 at 8:11 pm

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  I’ve just discovered that although the actual blog feed is showing the full post, the author archives only shows an excerpt. Still, is there any way to set up the actual blog feed so it only shows an excerpt?

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  supernovia · Staff · May 19, 2020 at 9:11 pm

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  Hi, typically this is a theme setting or page setup issue. Can you let us know which site you’re working on so we can check for you?

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  writer0001 · Member · May 20, 2020 at 12:27 pm

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  The link to the blog feed is https://writingwebsite.poetry.blog/blog-feed/

  I thought it might be to do with my Theme (which is Stow) but I had thought it was working before. That said, it could have been the Author Archives I was looking at.

  Thanks

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  fstat · Staff · May 20, 2020 at 2:03 pm

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  Hi there,

  This is how your theme displays blog posts. If you want to only show an excerpt you can use the More block:

  More Block

  The For each post in a feed, include option in your Reading Settings refers to your blog’s RSS feed. You can learn more about that here:

  https://wordpress.com/support/feeds/

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  writer0001 · Member · May 20, 2020 at 2:18 pm

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  Thanks!