Help with display options!
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Hi, I am using the Hemingway Rewritten theme. I would like a preview or “excerpt” of each post to appear on my home page. I have tried to figure this out via the dashboard and I am starting to think that the Hemingway Rewritten theme does not support excerpt text.
The problem is that on mobile devices, there is just too much text to scroll. Do I need to choose a new theme?
Thank you to anyone who can help!
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Okay, I have found the mobile display settings so that the excerpt displays on mobile devices! HOORAY
But is there a way to select this option for desktop as well?
Again, thanks are due to anyone who can help.
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There are two things I want to address here.
1. The first is that the Hemingway Rewritten theme is a responsive layout theme.
You are off on a wrong track. The mobile ready theme is default and a completely different theme that you do not need to enable at all.
A responsive layout theme adapts to different screen sizes so that your website will work (and be optimized for) iPhones, iPads, Android and other mobile devices. When responsive width themes are viewed on mobiles sidebars appear below the posts in order to provide as much space as possible for reading.
As I said above the mobile theme is a completely different theme. When we use a responsive theme we disable the mobile theme. Go to > Appearance > Mobile and disable the mobile theme
(2) embedding the more tag for content splitting into posts
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
To control the number of posts displayed on the front page go to > Dashboard > Settings > Reading
Blog pages show at most _ posts
“save changes”NOTE: When you insert the more tag into a post the split will not be evident in the preview mode. It will be there after publication, provided you entered it correctly.
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