Email Publishing / Please help / SIMPLE

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  nosmallplans2013 · Member · Aug 19, 2014 at 8:01 pm

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  How can I publish a new post and have the email to users not include the entire post put only the Title and perhaps the lead in?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Aug 19, 2014 at 8:03 pm

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  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/

  Alternatively, you can switch to using a theme that automatically displays front page excerpts. This is a list of active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content. Here are the themes that do provide that feature > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410

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  nosmallplans2013 · Member · Aug 19, 2014 at 8:06 pm

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  Thank you so much for the speedy response. What about when you notify readers via email, can you truncate that insuring they actually go to the blog and not read the entire entry in their email?

  For example, I just published a post and the entire post is in the email to users.

  thanks!!

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  auxclass · Member · Aug 19, 2014 at 8:39 pm

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  Dashboard >> Settings > Reading >> summary – should also send out a summery in the email – anyway that is the setting I use