How can I format posts to show a few lines of text with "more…" at the bottom?

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  pm8525 · Member · Jan 25, 2013 at 4:50 pm

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  Hello–

  I want all my posts to be formatted to show a few lines of text with a “click here for more” line at the bottom, so the reader can see many posts at a glance and then choose to read one in-depth by choosing to see more text in a particular post.

  I don’t know how to find themes that will allow this kind of formatting. Can you help?

  Thanks very much.

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  jenia · Member · Jan 28, 2013 at 8:04 am

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  Hi there, you can either choose a theme that supports excerpts, such as the Inuit Types theme: https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/

  Alternatively, you can use the More tag on individual posts: https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

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  pm8525 · Member · Feb 1, 2013 at 2:46 pm

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  Thanks very much for your answer. I post almost everything via email, so the “More” tag doesn’t work in my particular instance — I can’t insert it via email.

  I am at a loss for how to find themes that include “excerpts.” The “feature filter” for searching for themes does not include “excerpts” as a searchable category. Looking through all available themes seems to be the only way to find one that displays excerpts. Maybe this feature could be added to the feature filter.

  I tried Inuit Types, but it does not wrap long URLS; as a consequence, they spill from one column to the next, often making the right-hand column unreadable. Maybe this could be fixed?

  By examining many themes, I have found “Fresh News,” which does the trick — so, problem solved.