How do I Post Without Showing the Whole Post

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  neeklus · Member · Nov 11, 2013 at 5:39 pm

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  Hi there,

  Is there anyway I can customise my posts or theme on my blog so that they do not show the full post in full on the front page?

  I’d much prefer a brief summary with a photo, then the full post via clicking (something along the lines of this: http://www.liveforfilms.com/). Is this possible with this theme?

  Cheers

  Nick

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  timethief · Member · Nov 11, 2013 at 5:43 pm

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

  Then go to > Settings > Reading and select “summary” rather than “full text” for the RSS Feed entry and then click “save changes” .

  For each article in a feed, show
  _ Full text
  _ Summary
  “save changes”

  Also note that you can use a theme designed to display only excerpts on the front page automatically. This is a list of 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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  neeklus · Member · Nov 11, 2013 at 5:46 pm

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  Awesome thank you!

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  timethief · Member · Nov 11, 2013 at 5:47 pm

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  You’re welcome and happy blogging!