How do I show Excerpts instead of full posts?

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  kelemvor33 · Member · Dec 26, 2014 at 5:38 pm

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  So I went into Settings/Reading and changed the item from Full Text to Summary but it didn’t seem to have any effect. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

  I also want to to only show summaries/excerpts when someone views post by Category or does a Search or anything like that as well. Is this possible with the free wordpress.com sites?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 26, 2014 at 7:39 pm

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  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. Then when the “read more” link is clicked it links to the full post on it’s own page.
  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 active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content. Here are the themes that do provide that feature > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410

  Whether or not full posts or excerpts are displayed on the dynamic Archives, Tags and Categories pages is theme dependent. In most but not all themes what’s displayed is the same as what’s displayed on the front page. You cannot change what’s displayed unless you have a custom design upgrade. Frankly, after over 8 years of blogging here I can see that my visitors don’t use the dynamic pages so there’s not way I would pay for an annual upgrade to change the display.

  See here for details on purchasing the annually renewable custom and CSS editing:
  Custom design – Frequently Asked Questions
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-fonts/
  Please use this link https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform so you can copy and paste your text into a thread that will appear in the CSS Forum where you will get the help you need.