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  lapiccolaviaggiatrice · Member · Jan 20, 2016 at 11:25 pm

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  Hi! This may be a silly question, but I can’t figure out how to resolve it! When I post a new blog, it appears in full on my front page. I have noticed that some people have a snippet of the post and then a ‘read more’ link which takes them to the full blog post. How do I do this so that the front page doesn’t show the full post but an extract?
  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Jan 20, 2016 at 11:36 pm

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  Hello there,

  This is not a theme specific issue nor is it a CSS editing issue.

  The setting here > Settings > Reading is only for the RSS Feed summary and does not affect the posts.

  There is no global setting. 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/

  Custom Read More Message
  To customize the message, simply add a space after
  <!–more, and turn it into something like this… <!–more But wait, there’s more!–>
  The guide is here https://en.support.wordpress.com/more-tag/view-all/#custom-read-more-message

  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

  For other ways to splitting content in posts see > https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/

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  lapiccolaviaggiatrice · Member · Jan 21, 2016 at 8:47 am

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  Thank you so much!!! You’ve been a fantastic help! I really appreciate it! Thank you! :)

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  timethief · Member · Jan 23, 2016 at 3:37 am

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  You’re welcome. :)

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  cecilewiseways · Member · Jan 23, 2016 at 4:33 am

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  That may come in handy for sure if I can’t solve my problem. I want the blogs to be accessible by clicking on the top menu where it says blog and I want the home page to be what I set up the home page to be on the top menu. However, when anyone accesses my blog site, the home page is always my last blog.

  Is that inevitable or is there an option to do what I want. I created a website version with the same theme and info and had no trouble getting my chosen home page there.

  Thanks for your help if you know anything about this!

  Cecile:)