Email subscriber being redirected to gaming site

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  wonderingmindstudio · Member · Nov 11, 2015 at 1:21 am

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  A subscriber to my blog has just left a comment notifying me that he’s being redirected to an internet game when he attempts to read more of my post. Here’s his message:

  <<Just wanted to let you know that when I attempt to read more of the current one on Hokusai, I get unwillingly redirected to some ghastly internet game.
  Have you been hijacked?>>

  His details are bona fide; he’s been a subscriber for years.

  Any idea what’s happening here?

  Thanks – Miriam

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

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  timethief · Member · Nov 11, 2015 at 3:19 am

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  There is no read more tag in this post http://theawakenedeye.com/2015/11/11/hokusai-says/ thast I can click.

  I’m using a PC running windows 7 and Firefox 41.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 11, 2015 at 3:20 am

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  Edit: thast was meant to be that.

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  wonderingmindstudio · Member · Nov 11, 2015 at 3:41 am

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  Thanks for having a look @timethief.

  I was presuming the chap meant the ‘read more of this post’ link in his email notification. (… which I have configured to only show an excerpt, but can’t for the life of me find where I did that …)

  Oddly, I’ve only had the one complaint, and with 125 views of the post so far today I wonder if the problem might be at his end?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 11, 2015 at 3:52 am

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  It could be that he has a malware issue on his browser.

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  wonderingmindstudio · Member · Nov 11, 2015 at 4:04 am

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  Thanks, I’ll put that to him…

  Btw TT, can you tell me where I configured the email notifications to show only an excerpt rather than the whole post? I’m cross-eyed trying to find it on the dashboard. :-)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 11, 2015 at 4:08 am

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  You can set your RSS Feed to summary, that setting here > Settings > Reading is only for the RSS Feed summary and does not affect the posts.

  When it comes to inserting “the more tag” AKA “the read more tag” into posts to shorten front page display be splitting text there is no universal setting for the whole blog. This is done post by post.

  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

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  wonderingmindstudio · Member · Nov 11, 2015 at 4:15 am

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  Ahhhh – that’s what I was after – the RSS Feed setting. Doh.
  Thanks so much.
  Miriam

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  timethief · Member · Nov 11, 2015 at 4:19 am

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  You’re welcome Miriam. :)