Help With Posts (How to Shorten them Up)

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  confidencemodels · Member · Mar 24, 2008 at 1:52 pm

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  Hi, Im in the process of setting up my word press site. I wanted a situation where when I post an article it appears on the page but in brief, so people can later click on the title, or the image, to read more. Unfortunately what Im getting is a full line up of all my articles on one page.

  To give a brief explantion, I want a situation where when i post an article it doesnt display the full article on the line up page, but instead the first few lines, and then it give people the option to read more.

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  isadora · Member · Mar 24, 2008 at 6:43 pm

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  You can use the “more” tag
  Icon 13 in the visual editor: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/15/what-do-all-the-icons-mean/
  How to customize the link text:

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 24, 2008 at 11:03 pm

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  Beware though, the more tag has been responsible for many, many headaches lately because it splits things before an ending div tag that breaks themes. Not everyone is effected by this, but many seem to be.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 24, 2008 at 11:04 pm

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  Here is one (of the many) threads on this lately: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=24757&replies=10