How do I create a "Continue Reading" link?

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  nothingtaken · Member · Jan 2, 2015 at 7:41 pm

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  In the days of Livejournal, this was called “LJ-cut”… I so remember when LJ was hot. But here, I can’t figure out how to do it. Any help?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 2, 2015 at 7:43 pm

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  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

  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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  nothingtaken · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 9:55 pm

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  Thanks for the help!

  I saw that some themes did it automatically, but lost which one it was. At least I can do it manually instead.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 4, 2015 at 12:03 am

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  You’re welcome and best wishes.