Home Page Blog Descriptions

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  kjfootz · Member · Mar 5, 2015 at 11:11 pm

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  How do I get my home page (on the Hemingway theme) to only show a brief description of each blog post instead of the whole thing? Also can I get an image to pop up on the side of the small description for each blog post on my home page?

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  galois · Member · Mar 5, 2015 at 11:16 pm

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  You can use the more tag:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

  Or the excerpts: https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/

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  timethief · Member · Mar 5, 2015 at 11:18 pm

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  Hi there,
  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

  Before inserting the more tag into each post, to address your second aspect of this issue, embed a thumbnail sized image in your post so it will appear in your front page excerpts.

  To control the number of posts displayed on the front page go to > Dashboard > Settings > Reading
  Blog pages show at most _ posts
  “save changes”

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  galois · Member · Mar 17, 2015 at 11:31 am

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  Note that list is outdated. There are more themes that support excerpts.