How do I get the "read more" option to appear with my posts?

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  zyx19 · Member · Oct 29, 2015 at 12:22 am

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  How do I get the “read more” option to appear with my posts? Rather than the whole entire post every time.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 29, 2015 at 12:31 am

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  Although you can set your RSS Feed to summary, that setting here > Settings > Reading is only for the RSS Feed summary and does not affect the posts.

  When it comes to inserting “the more tag” AKA “the read more tag” into posts to shorten front page display be splitting text there is no universal setting for the whole blog. This is done post by post.

  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/

  The read more tag can be inserted once only into any post to change the front page or main page for posts display from full post to an excerpt. The split in the text does not display to you in preview mode but it will be there after the post is published.

  Alternatively, you can switch to using a theme that automatically displays front page excerpts. This is a list of only SOME active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410

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  zyx19 · Member · Oct 29, 2015 at 12:37 am

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  This is the part I was talking about “When it comes to inserting “the more tag” AKA “the read more tag” into posts to shorten front page display be splitting text there is no universal setting for the whole blog. This is done post by post”. Could you explain how to do this?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 29, 2015 at 12:48 am

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  There is no universal setting. It has to be done on each post. The only other alternative is to use a theme that is designed to automatically post front page excerpts.

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  zyx19 · Member · Oct 29, 2015 at 12:51 am

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  I mean how do I do it on each post?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 29, 2015 at 12:52 am

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  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.

  The relevant support doc is here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

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  zyx19 · Member · Oct 29, 2015 at 12:54 am

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  Ok. I got what I wanted. Thank you

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  timethief · Member · Oct 29, 2015 at 1:13 am

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  Well done. :)