How do I only show a summary of my blog?

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  kaygrace2015 · Member · Apr 11, 2015 at 3:32 pm

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  I’ve gone onto my dashboard>settings>reading
  and from there selected summary and saved

  but it still shows the whole text- anything else i can try?
  Thanks

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  timethief · Member · Apr 11, 2015 at 3:52 pm

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  Hi there,
  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 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

  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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  kaygrace2015 · Member · Apr 11, 2015 at 10:19 pm

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  Thank you so much!