Condense Posts Instead of Full Length

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  mrskatystacy · Member · Mar 26, 2014 at 1:36 am

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  I know some themes do this automatically, but is there a way in CSS for me to force my posts to show up as just the featured image and a quick snippet of the actual post? And then readers could click to continue reading.

  My theme is ‘Stay’.

  Thank you.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 26, 2014 at 1:40 am

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  Sorry but I don’t have a CSS answer for you. You can get one in the CSS Forum by using this link and posting there https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform

  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/

  Alternatively you can switch to using a theme that automatically displays front page excerpts. This is a list of active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content. Here are the themes that do provide that feature > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410