Converting to Summary Posts
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How do you summarize several posts on your blog into short snippets so that people can scroll easily through several articles at once rather than having to scroll all the way down through full-length articles? However, I want the readers to still be able to read the full-length articles if they so choose by clicking on each individual article.
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I would love to know how to do this as well. On the blog page could you have the featured image, and the excerpt next to it. That way people could scroll down through posts very quickly, and click on the ones they wanted to read.
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Note that 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/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 ext 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/
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