How to organize blog posts

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    vitatestsite · Member ·

    I want my blog page to have short excerpts of each blog post and show all blog posts all together as short boxes one after another, so that readers don’t have to scroll through a whole blog post before reaching the next one. Instead, I want the blog post page to show all blog posts at once but only feature short excerpts of them so that readers can see all of the posts at once and decide which posts they are interested in and want to click on to read further.

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    timethief · Member ·

    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 in the exact spot you want the content to split off.
    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 content 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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