How do I make summaries of multiple posts appear on my homepage?

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  unitedwaywyco · Member · May 14, 2015 at 9:23 pm

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  On my home page I would like to show the summary version of recent posts. I have chosen this option under ‘Reading Settings’ but it is still just showing the entirely of my most recent posts so you have to scroll all the way through it to get to the post before that. I have tried many different templates and I cannot get this function to work on any of them.

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  timethief · Member · May 14, 2015 at 9:27 pm

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  You can set your RSS Feed to summary. The setting here > Settings > Reading is only for the RSS Feed summary and doing that 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/

  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 ext 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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  musicdoc1 · Member · May 14, 2015 at 9:35 pm

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  NextPage is another option for splitting content.

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  unitedwaywyco · Member · May 14, 2015 at 9:37 pm

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  Thank you for the quick responses. Both of these options were of great assistance!

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  timethief · Member · May 14, 2015 at 9:37 pm

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  Yes it is but it will not provide summaries on the front page. The pagination numbers for the pages are also very awkwardly placed at the bottom of posts and sometimes visitors do not click them.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · May 15, 2015 at 12:55 am

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  @ timethief,
  You’re right. I was confusing single post and posts page there. Just tested the affect of the NextPage code on my posts page and found that it truncates the content of the post at the point it is placed, but it doesn’t create numerical page links, or any other kind of link to the truncated portion (on the posts page).