Creating an Excerpt

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    bhavyashah125 · Member ·

    I am entering certain text in the Enter Excerpt edit field while creating a new post and the result I receive is that the excerpt text is followed by the post content, and there is no Read More or Continue Reading link that appears after the brief excerpt on my homepage redirecting readers to the full-length post. Now, I am also quite unsure about the usage of the More tag to achieve the same. I would truly appreciate any assistance!

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    timethief · Member ·

    Note that “the more tag” is not a theme-specific feature. There is also no global setting for it.

    Also, 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 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

    For other ways to splitting content in posts see > https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/

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