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  katesbookishlibrary · Member · Nov 23, 2016 at 8:13 pm

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  When viewing my blog, each post is to its full extent. I would like to change it to where you’re just looking an excerpt, and when you click on it, then the full post will show it.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 23, 2016 at 8:20 pm

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  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/