How to make posts appear as a summary

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  michaeltokarz · Member · Jul 1, 2014 at 10:14 pm

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  I’m trying to make the posts for my blog show up as summaries on my blog page so there is a short snippet from the post and a link that can be clicked on to view the entire post. I’ve tried going to Reading Settings and selecting summary but nothing happens when I do this.

  Here’s a link to what I currently have:
  http://michaeltokarzphotography.com/blog/

  I don’t want people who come to my site to have to scroll through everything just to find one post.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 1, 2014 at 10:15 pm

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  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 active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content. Here are the themes that do provide that feature > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410

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  michaeltokarz · Member · Jul 1, 2014 at 10:27 pm

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  Thanks, timethief. That was exactly what I was looking for.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 1, 2014 at 10:37 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes.