How to add a preview of my blog posts to the front page?
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I just created my blog/website and so far i have 2 posts. when i go to my front page, it shows my most recent article/post. Like the whole thing. then under that it shows the full post before that. i like that my posts are there, i just don’t want the ENTIRE post. i want to go to my home page and see like a header image with like the very beginning of the article, only showing a little of it. not the whole thing. i want people to have to click on the article to read the whole thing. how do i do this?
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Hey there @twdbreakingnews,
For each article in a feed you can select Full text or Summary. Full text means that the entire contents of a post are included in the feed. Summary means that only the first 55 words are included in the feed, along with the option to continue reading the rest of the post. For what you want to do you’ll choose “Summary”.
Here’s how to do it: https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/reading-settings/
I hope this fixes you up!
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@twdbreakingnews
Although you can set your RSS Feed to summary, that setting here > Settings > Reading is only for the RSS Feed summary and does not affect the post display on the front page or main page for posts on your blog.When it comes to inserting “the more tag” AKA “the read more tag” into posts to shorten front page display be splitting text there is no universal setting for the whole blog. This is done post by post.
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/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 text does not display to you in preview mode but it will be there after the post is published.
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
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Looks like you got this sorted by using the “More” tag, as timethief suggested. I’m marking it as resolved, but if you need further help feel free to start a new thread.
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