Can I display my posts in a shortened format on my front page?

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  alexfairfax · Member · Mar 26, 2014 at 2:35 pm

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  I’m concerned that, 9 posts into my blog, the scrolling front page of posts is becoming unreadable due to the number of words on display. My blog is a running commentary on a research project, and I think it would work better if readers could get a quicker ‘surface’ impression of the progress from the start to now.

  Can I compress the display of my posts on the front page, so that readers can scroll through my posts (title + first paragraph, ideally) more quickly – and then click through to the full post when they want to?

  I am using the ‘Suits’ theme, which I’d prefer not to have to change.

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  andrealyeska · Member · Mar 26, 2014 at 3:19 pm

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  Yes, you can use the More Tag to truncate your blog entries so that only the first part of certain posts is displayed on the home and archive pages.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

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  alexfairfax · Member · Mar 26, 2014 at 4:23 pm

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  Thanks! How nice to find such a straightforward solution!