Email to followers: how to change content to be just summary of a post?

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  ericknepper · Member · Apr 21, 2014 at 5:06 pm

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  How can I change the format of emails that are sent when I make a new post? I would like to send just a summary email (i.e. like the summary of each entry that appears on my main page) to my “followers” rather than the entire (long) entry when I post?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 21, 2014 at 5:09 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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  ericknepper · Member · Apr 21, 2014 at 5:21 pm

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  Thank you!

  I’ll check these two links – looks like what I was hoping for!

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  timethief · Member · Apr 21, 2014 at 5:22 pm

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  You’re welcome. :)