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  jessicalynas · Member · Oct 12, 2012 at 9:15 am

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  how do i make my last 4 posts fully display with an image when you open my blog.
  it does a quick summary and then you have to click on title to open it.
  Blog url: http://theculinarypalette.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Oct 13, 2012 at 11:45 pm

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  The Sight theme displays only beginnings of posts on the front page of the theme as that’s the way it’s designed. Click the theme title link in the footer on you blog are read the theme description:
  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sight/
  live demo site > http://sightdemo.wordpress.com/

  The Sight theme has an active excerpt box and that means you can use it to override the display on the front page.On any theme with an active excerpt box you can use this workaround to have full posts on the front page.

  You compose your whole post first and before you publish it you switch to the HTML (Text) editor, copy all the code, paste it into the Excerpt box below the posts editor, and publish the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/#creating-excerpts

  If you do not see an excerpt box then go to screen options on the top right hand corner of your Admin page and include:
  Post – Likes and Shares, Format*, Categories, Tags, Excerpt, Send Trackbacks, Discussion, Comments**, Slug, Author, Revisions, Writing Helper

  P.S. On themes that do have an active excerpt function, the workaround works very well but you have to do it on every post you create.

  Featured Slider
  Sight displays up to 30 of your latest sticky posts http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/#sticky-posts that have featured images http://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/ in a prominent slider on the front page. To add a post to the slider, mark it as sticky and give it a featured image.

  Sight featured images
  Large: 640 x 290 in the Sticky posts slider
  Small: 290 x 290 thumbnails are used on the home, category, tag, archives, and search pages. http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sight/

  Staff have been introducing “infinite scroll” to themes — a site wide change that will be applied to all themes that are suitable for the implementation. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/to-infinity?replies=137
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/to-infinity-and-beyond/

  Disabling the infinite scroll feature to get rid of the pop-up in the footer results in a “Load More Posts” tab, and you can’t disable that “Load More Posts” tab from appearing and have “previous post” and “next post” links, without the Custom Design upgrade. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/