How to make the front page show only the beginning of each article
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Hi. I have been running a WordPress site since May last year.
Unfortunately, when you go to the front page of the site, it shows the whole articles instead of just the first 8-10 lines of each article. In order to make the front page less long, I have set it to show only the one most recent post.
But I have seen other WordPress sites where you just see the beginning of each post on the front page, and you have to click on a post to read it in its entirety. I have been trying to figure out how to do that, but I can’t find the solution. Can anyone please help me?
The site is: escsongreviews.wordpress.com
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Note that “the more tag” is not a theme-specific feature. There is also no global setting for it.
Also, note that 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/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
For other ways to splitting content in posts see > https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/
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