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  goodfoodgoodthymes · Member · Jan 27, 2016 at 1:23 am

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  I am in the Hemingway Rewritten theme and I just posted my first post. It shows up on my home page but I was wondering if there was any way to get just a preview on the home page. I want people to have to click on the link to the post so I can see how many views there are. Let me know if this is possible with this theme! Thanks :)

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  timethief · Member · Jan 27, 2016 at 4:55 am

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  Note that “the more tag” is not a theme-specific feature. There is also no global setting for it.

  Also, note that 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 text 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

  For other ways to splitting content in posts see > https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/