How to format blog homepage

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  thepeoplesjaguar · Member · Jul 28, 2017 at 5:53 pm

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  I want only a few sentences of each blog to appear on the home page followed by a link that says ‘continue reading’ , I do not want the whole article on the homepage, how do I change that?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 28, 2017 at 5:54 pm

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  Most newer themes display excerpts by default. This Themes showcase filter lists all themes that display excerpts by default: https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/blog-excerpts

  Most newer themes also have the Content Options panel in the Customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/, which allows you to choose between displaying the full post or an excerpt.

  If you want to display only post excerpts on the front page or the blogs 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.

  Please Read Go Back and Edit Posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#go-back-and-edit-posts and be sure to click Update to publish the after your editing.

  For other ways to split content see > https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/

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  timethief · Member · Jul 28, 2017 at 5:56 pm

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  Every theme has a detailed theme description page like this one at https://wordpress.com/theme/hemingway-rewritten/ That’s where set up instructions for it are found.

  All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/