Blog posts shown in full and not as a summary

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  coacherez · Member · Sep 30, 2015 at 11:06 am

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  Hey,

  I’ve just changed the settings in my admin panel, that was supposed to fix this issue – showing only the summary of the posts, and not the whole thing. However, nothing’s changed.

  How can I fix this?

  Thanks in advance

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  micawbr · Member · Oct 1, 2015 at 12:19 am

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  Hi,
  It looks like you’ve sorted this out. I visited your homepage and each post has a few paragraphs with a “continue reading” link underneath.

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  coacherez · Member · Oct 1, 2015 at 5:18 pm

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  Yes, I found a workaround, and later discovered the magical icon that does it for me. Thank you!

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  drjenniferdylan · Member · Oct 3, 2015 at 2:27 pm

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  Can you tell me how you fixed this please as I can’t get my blog to work.

  Thanks :)

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  coacherez · Member · Oct 6, 2015 at 6:51 pm

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  sure thing!

  When you write a new post, look for a button in the uppermost row, that is to the left of the proofread writing (looks like an ABC with a tick sign).
  The button itself looks like a square with 3 dots in it.

  When you hover over it, it says “insert read more tag”.

  Hope it helps!

  Have a great week!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 6, 2015 at 6:53 pm

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  May I add some more information to this thread please?

  Although you can set your RSS Feed to summary, that setting here > Settings > Reading is only for the RSS Feed summary and does not affect the posts.

  When it comes to inserting “the more tag” AKA “the read more tag” into posts to shorten front page display be splitting text there is no universal setting for the whole blog. This is done post by post.

  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

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  drjenniferdylan · Member · Oct 6, 2015 at 7:07 pm

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  Thank you so much, got it exactly how I want it now :)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 6, 2015 at 7:22 pm

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  You’re welcome.