Display articles as ‘summary’ in feed

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  celiaknox · Member · May 14, 2018 at 4:28 pm

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  Hi,
  I recently changed my blog to the Toujours theme. I want my posts to display as excerpts only, rather than showing the full text. I’ve selected ‘limit feed to excerpt only’, as well as ‘For each article in a feed show summary’, but it hasn’t made any difference. What else can I do?
  https://celiaintokyo.wordpress.com

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  ravichahar · Member · May 14, 2018 at 4:40 pm

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  Hey celiaknox,

  You can change the content settings. Go to Customize>>Content Options and choose the “Post Excerpt” radio button.

  Customizer: Content Options

  And you can add an excerpt manually to your posts.

  Excerpts

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  celiaknox · Member · May 14, 2018 at 5:16 pm

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  Hi ravichahar, thanks for your reply.

  Unfortunately the Toujours theme doesn’t offer the “Content Option” button.

  I tried your other suggestion of manually adding an excerpt on one post, but it didn’t change anything.

  Any other possibilities??

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  ravichahar · Member · May 14, 2018 at 5:36 pm

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  The manual method should work.

  Have you tried after clearing the browser cache and cookies?

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  celiaknox · Member · May 14, 2018 at 6:50 pm

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  The example layout for the theme clearly shows posts displayed as excerpts so I think it’s a fault in the coding. If anyone can help with that I would be grateful, otherwise I’ll have to change themes again unfortunately.

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  themagicrobot · Member · May 14, 2018 at 7:07 pm

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  “limit feed to excerpt only” refers to your feed rather than how your site displays on the Internet. These are the free themes that support excerpts: https://wordpress.com/themes/free/filter/blog-excerpts
  You could use the “Read more” button with the Toujours theme: https://en.support.wordpress.com/more-tag/