how do you set up so to read the post requires a click through to the website?

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    fridaybrews · Member ·

    I want to know how to set up the blog so that when I repost it to say FB…or it emails the reminder of a new post … it only shows partial blog and requires them to click through to the website to read the rest of the post.

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    timethief · Member ·

    You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here Dashboard > Settings > Reading. Choose the “summary” setting for your RSS feed rather than to “full text”. That will compel followers who are not using mobiles to click into the blog to read the full post which will create a page view stat.

    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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