How do I shorten the posts on my home menu?

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    mabeckwith · Member ·

    On the home menu of my blog, all my posts are fully displayed. I would like to have it so only a short excerpt from the beginning is displayed, so people can click on it if they wish to read the whole thing. How do I do that?

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    timethief · Member ·

    Note that a Page is not a Post. https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

    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.

    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 or the main page set for post display 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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