Blog formatting

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  lovelydubley · Member · Jun 4, 2014 at 10:38 am

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  Hi,

  I see on other blogs there is a picture and a brief summary for every post, but on mine you have to keep scrolling fully through each post to get to the next one.

  How can I set it up so that people can go on to thegrahamhussey.com and see a list of my posts and decide which one to read?

  Regards

  Graham

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  kardotim · Member · Jun 4, 2014 at 12:17 pm

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  You can truncate your blog entries so that only the first part of certain posts is displayed on the home and archive pages. When you do this, a link will be placed directly after your excerpt, pointing the reader to the full post.

  You can read more information about this at http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

  Otherwise I recommend using a theme that automatically does this for you. You can preview themes at http://themes.wordpress.com

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  lovelydubley · Member · Jun 4, 2014 at 1:17 pm

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  Thanks,

  How do I add a picture so people see what they are clicking in to? If I put a picture before the “More Tag” it looks silly when they click in to the post.

  Thanks

  Graham

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  kardotim · Member · Jun 4, 2014 at 1:22 pm

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  You can either add a featured image to your post: http://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/ or maybe even better, activate the showcase feature in your theme: http://twentyelevendemo.wordpress.com/showcase/

  To get started with the custom Showcase Page Template you need to create a page for it. Choose the Showcase Template under page templates in any page, save it, and assign it as the front page in Settings → Reading. This will change your site from the standard Twenty Eleven blog look to Twenty Eleven’s fancy showcase. You still have you regular blog list at hand for several views, like categories, searches, and tags and you can specify another page to work as your blog if you want to.

  To add posts to the Featured Post section, also known as a post slider, just mark some posts as sticky. That’s all there is to it.

  To have a big featured image you need to use an image that is at least as big as the header image (1000px x 288px). Also, make sure you have a set size for Large image under Settings → Media that allows for such sizes.

  To populate the sidebars Ephemera Widget you can make use of the Aside or Link post formats when you create a new entry (or convert an old one).

  And if you want an introductory text message, just write it in the content of your Showcase page and it will appear on your site. And that’s it!