Condensing the view of new posts in Baskerville
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In the Baskerville theme, I have an important Q about how posts to the homepage are viewed–I want to *condense* the view. I would like to make my homepage less overwhelming. I use this for class posts, for a 22 person course (including me, the instructor). Right now the posts are viewable ONLY in full-length, and this requires a LOT of scrolling to get to the bottom menu bars or to select “older posts”.
Is there any way you can help me figure out how to condense the view–i.e., title, any image or video, and then about 5-10 lines of text (but not the entirety of the post in vertical scrolling length)?
Thank you!
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Hello,
I’m having exactly the same issue with this theme. Got any insight ever since?Thanks!!!
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Took me a few hours of scouring forums and figuring things out, but there is an answer (!). Here is what I wrote to students (we have a class blog), about shortening their posts.
Create a “continue reading–>” link after the first paragraph or key point of your post: This makes everything way more readable, and easy to navigate.
How to do this: On your post page (draft form), after your first paragraph, select the button on the first row of design icons, that looks like a 2-lane road with a dotted line. It is to the right of the “link” buttons (that look like a chain or chain being burst open). This adds the “Continue Reading” function, and will insert a dotted line in your draft post. Then hit blue “Publish” button up top, and you’ll have a “–> Continue Reading” function in your viewable post on the blog.
Hope that helps!
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Although you can set your RSS Feed to summary at Dashboard > Settings > Reading regardless of the theme, 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
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@mariondassonneville
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Sorry I did not send the url of the blog ! However both your answers worked and I thank you for that, since I had been spending a good part of yesterday trying to figure it out :-)
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I believe you must be referring to http://culturesnumeriques.me/ and I’m glad I was able to help. To link your username to your primary active blog see here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2007/10/06/link-your-username-to-your-blog/ Note: This change is not retroactive. It applies only to comments you submit after the change is made.
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