Blog post display

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  vvnjournal · Member · Feb 3, 2022 at 7:51 am

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  Hi, for each blog category, how do I not show the full post until the reader click on it? I mean, like when I click ‘cruelty free beauty’ category, there’re two posts, each post shows the full post. How do I make it not showing the full post until the reader click on it? thanks

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  kokkieh · Staff · Feb 3, 2022 at 11:02 am

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  Hi there,

  To do this, edit each post, and add the more block at the point where you want the excerpt of the post to cut off:

  https://wordpress.com/en/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/more-block/

  The Twenty Fifteen theme you’re using doesn’t have an option to display excerpts automatically, so the only way to do this is by manually adding that block to every post you don’t want to display in full.

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  vvnjournal · Member · Feb 6, 2022 at 12:40 am

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  Hi there,

  thanks for your reply, I have tried it and it works!

  I have one more question, I have added the “load more post’ button on my homepage but after I clicked “update”, it still didn’t show the “load more post” button. Please advice

  thanks

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  fstat · Staff · Feb 6, 2022 at 9:06 am

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  Hi there,

  I don’t see that button either. How exactly have you added it?

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  vvnjournal · Member · Feb 6, 2022 at 11:29 pm

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  Hi, its on the homepage (edit page), i click on the blog posts box and there’s an option to add a load more button, but the button doesn’t show after i clicked update/saved. can i send you a screenshot for reference? thanks

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  fstat · Staff · Feb 7, 2022 at 8:32 am

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  Now I see it! Okay, I think I figured this out. This is happening because you’re using a rather old theme that was released 7 years ago, so the Blog Posts block doesn’t play well with it.

  What I recommend is switching to a more modern theme that fully supports the Block Editor. To find such themes go to https://wordpress.com/themes/ and make sure that the Recommended tab is selected.