How to display post excerpts in feed

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  greenspiritstrategies · Member · Jun 20, 2012 at 9:34 pm

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  Hi!

  I’ve looked at other forum posts to understand how to do this, but I’m still rather confused. On my main posts page (‘Blog’ tab), and the categorized posts (under the ‘media’ tab) I would like the articles posted to have only a small excerpt of text visible. Right now the full posts are in view, beginning to end, which has become a hassle to scroll through. What I want to have shown is the short excerpt with [Full article…] or something similar that directs readers to the full post.

  This page exemplifies what I would like to see: http://www.beattystreetpublishing.com/in-the-media/

  Request to see my site and I will add you!

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  timethief · Member · Jun 20, 2012 at 9:38 pm

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  Go here > Settings Reading and select “summary”
  Syndication feeds show the most recent – items
  For each article in a feed, show
  Full text
  Summary
  That’s for the RSS feed only and does not affect what display on the main page for posts in the blog.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 20, 2012 at 9:40 pm

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  To create excerpts of post on the main page of the blog instert “the more tag” into your posts. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

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  timethief · Member · Jun 20, 2012 at 9:42 pm

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  Note this please. What is displayed on Categories pages and on Archives pages is theme dependent and cannot be changed. http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/full-posts-in-archive-pages/

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  greenspiritstrategies · Member · Jun 20, 2012 at 11:45 pm

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  Thank you very much, can’t believe it was that simple!