How to show more Excerpts in categories

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  swanscot · Member · May 12, 2011 at 10:31 am

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  I use Twenty Ten theme as this allows my blog to show Excepts when anyone clicks on the Categories link. Can I set this to show more than 3 (excerpts of) posts within categories. I have the front page set to only show 3 posts as most of my posts are usually photo-heavy. Since the excerpts are only a few lines, with no photos, I’d like to show about 10.

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  airodyssey · Member · May 12, 2011 at 11:13 am

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  Hi. Settings > Reading > Blog pages show at most… works for everything. You can’t have a separate setting for the front page and another for the categories I’m afraid.

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  swanscot · Member · May 12, 2011 at 12:03 pm

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  > You can’t have a separate setting for the front page and another for the categories I’m
  > afraid

  Thanks airodyssey. So I need to decide whether to annoy readers with a slow-loading home page (by increasing the posts to more than 3) or annoy people with forever clicking the ‘Older posts’ button when they search my categories.

  I think I may go up to about 4 or 5 posts, and hope most visitors to my blog use the menus on the pages on the header; these show my useful categories.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · May 12, 2011 at 12:08 pm

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  I’d suggest you use the read-more tag or pagination to show only a portion of each post on your home page. Then you can set the number of pages to show to a higher number without slowing down the page load time.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/nextpage/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

  Also note that if you are willing to change themes, some themes can show custom excerpts on the front page:

  The Excerpt function