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  larawool · Member · Mar 9, 2017 at 12:43 am

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  Im trying to change the theme desgin for my blog post. I am looking at changing the layout so that htere is only a short intro to my blog and the image rather than scrolling trhough each blog post in full to get to the next. I really need help with trying to change this as im not sure if its a setting or not.
  Thanks Heaps lara

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  melissabejar · Member · Mar 9, 2017 at 4:38 am

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  Hello:

  <quote>For each article in a feed you can select Full text or Summary. Full text means that the entire contents of a post are included in the feed. Summary means that only the first 55 words are included in the feed, along with the option to continue reading the rest of the post.</quote>

  If this sounds like what you are trying to achieve, then the following support document will be able to assist you with making this change.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/reading-settings/

  Please Note:The instructions from this guide are referring to the WP Admin dashboard. You can get to this dashboard by adding /wp-admin to the end of your site’s url (e.g.: example.wordpress.com/wp-admin)

  I hope that helps.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 9, 2017 at 4:39 am

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  The Reading Settings page summary setting changes the RSS feed display only and does not impact the posts on the site.

  https://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php

  *Replace NAME_OF_BLOG withe the actual name of your blog in that URL.

  If you want to display only post excerpts on the front page or the blogs 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 text does not display to you in preview mode but it will be there after the post is published.

  Please Read Go Back and Edit Posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#go-back-and-edit-posts and be sure to click Update to publish the after your editing.

  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/