How Can I Make My Blog Posts Only Show Part Of Each Piece?

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  none1776 · Member · Feb 19, 2011 at 3:55 am

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  This is my blog http://www.artisticexpression.wordpress.com

  anyway, I was wondering if I’d be able to get my blog posts to only show part of each piece. If someone wants to read the whole thing, they can click on the blog post’s title…

  I went to my dashboard and clicked on READING and instead of FULL text, I put it to show summary and then saved it, but that didn’t do anything.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Feb 19, 2011 at 4:29 am

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  Check this support document:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Feb 19, 2011 at 4:34 am

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  In your dashboard, under settings—>reading—>note that it says, “For each article in a feed, show ” summary or full text

  That setting is for how readers will see you RSS feed.

  Find Your RSS Feed

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  okanagancollegesustainability · Member · Mar 11, 2011 at 6:28 am

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  Thank you so much for the replies….

  IS there any was to change the CSS so that it does it after a certain number of words? (I have multiple people posting ot the blog, and they may forget to press the “more” button………

  thanks so much!!!
  Arnica

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  timethief · Member · Mar 11, 2011 at 6:31 am

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  CSS cannot be used to change functionality so I suspect the answer will be no. I’ll leave that to TSP or hallluke to answer.

  Did you know that there are themes like Fusion, Inuit Types and Hemingway that can be set to display front page excerpts?
  http://theme.wordpress.com/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 11, 2011 at 7:25 am

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  Confirming Timethief’s suspicion, this is not something that can be done through CSS. As she says, CSS cannot change functionality, it is a document for styling page elements only.

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  okanagancollegesustainability · Member · Mar 11, 2011 at 8:40 am

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  Thank you very much – at least I’m not searching for something that doesn’t exist anymore! I will check out those theme suggestions – thank you.

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  livingitlight · Member · Mar 11, 2011 at 10:16 am

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  was a pleasure discovering this button and i figured it out reading on forums like this, really transformed my blog! http://www.livingitlight.wordpress.com

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 11, 2011 at 11:08 am

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  Don’t leave link signatures in the forum when you’ve already linked your name to your blog. It’s not the proper etiquette, as you can see from all the above posts.