Customizing a theme that won't allow post summaries

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    steventraher · Member ·

    I’m using the Twenty Twelve theme for my blog, (which is in the process of being converted from http://www.colorandclarity.com to http://www.compassionandclarity.org) and I have an issue with the template — I would like to show only summaries of the blog posts, but it displays the entire posts. I’ve checked off “Summaries” instead of “Full Text” under Settings/Reading, but the full text appears anyway. Is there a way to customize the code so that the template will perform correctly?

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    timethief · Member ·

    The setting here > Settings > Reading is for the RSS Feed only.
    To split content in posts by inserting “the more tag” see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

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    timethief · Member ·

    Oops! I’m sorry as I just noticed this thread was in the CSS Forum. :( Please be patient while waiting for another Volunteer to help with your CSS editing.

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    justpi · Member ·

    As timethief said, that setting is for the RSS feed, not the actual homepage of the blog, so there’s nothing correct or incorrect about the way the theme performs.
    The way a theme works depends on its PHP, not its CSS. You can use CSS to hide elements (for example you can easily make the posts page display titles only instead of full posts), but CSS cannot create functions the theme doesn’t support (such as auto excerpts that link to the full post).
    So, if you want excerpts on the posts page, you need a different theme.

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