How to have blog page have titles, no text?

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  joesixpack1000 · Member · Sep 24, 2016 at 10:24 pm

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  Hi, we would like to have our blog page – the page with all the blog posts listed – have ONLY the titles of each post, but NOT the body text, so that viewers have to click on each post title to go and read it, making the blog page more of an “index” of posts, sort of.

  How do we do this on WordPress.com?

  Thanks.

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  joesixpack1000 · Member · Sep 25, 2016 at 3:12 pm

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  themagicrobot · Member · Sep 25, 2016 at 6:12 pm

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  You’ve already got a “continue reading” on your Wisdom post. Isn’t that what you desire? Using the “Insert Read More” button in the Visual editor before your text should do it.

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  joesixpack1000 · Member · Sep 25, 2016 at 8:20 pm

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  On the blog page we want NONE of the body text to show up, just an index of blog post titles they can click on to go to the individual blog post.

  Am I explaining that well enough?

  So that on the blog page they see:

  Blog Post Title 4
  Blog Post Title 3
  Blog Post Title 2
  Blog Post Title 1

  …and they can click on any of them to read them.

  How do I do that?

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  joesixpack1000 · Member · Sep 26, 2016 at 1:59 pm

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  Nevermind, I solved it myself – for anyone else who finds this thread, the answer seems to be to create a page using the following shortcode:

  [display-posts include_excerpt="false"]

  Done and done.