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  dddaveee · Member · May 16, 2016 at 5:05 pm

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  Currently, the homepage of my blog shows the headline of the first post with the option to click to expand and read it. I want the homepage to display the most recent post in full without clicking. How can I achieve this?

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  timethief · Member · May 16, 2016 at 5:28 pm

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  Change themes. See the live demo site for your theme here https://wordpress.com/themes/rebalance/ and note that it is designed to display only front page excerpts. Since the mobile explosion that is the way most themes are being designed now.

  Themes that provide automatic post excerpts on the front page followed by read more links like yours can sometimes be made to display full post through use of the excerpt box below the editor.

  If you use a theme that automatically displays front page excerpts then here’s the workaround to compel the display of full posts on the front page. Edit the posts and look below the editor box to locate the excerpt module. You can control the length of the excerpt displayed on the front page and the exact excerpt that is displayed there. However, note that no links or HTML for images etc. will be active.

  You compose your whole post first and before you publish it you switch to the HTML (Text) editor, copy the code for what you wish to appear, paste it into the Excerpt box below the editor, and publish the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/#creating-excerpts If you want to create your own excerpt for each post then that will have to be done on every post.

  re: switching themes
  Every theme has a detailed theme description page with set-up instructions and a live demo site. Here’s an example of the detailed theme description page here https://wordpress.com/themes/twentysixteen/ and a live demo site here https:/twentysixteendemo.wordpress.com/

  Switching themes can be easily done, provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the site. Themes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. You can quickly and easily change themes on any WordPress.COM hosted blog to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and no data will be lost or negatively affected by the change. The only time you may have to do a lot of work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme with different features and/or if you have done any CSS editing.

  Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes, Browse themes until you find one you like and click the “activate” or the “preview” link, or type in the name of the theme you want to use when it appears.

  The theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/ provides a preview function for exactly that purpose ie. so you can view what a theme will appear like prior to changing one.