How to stop blog posts being condensed?
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How do I stop my blog posts from being condensed? As it stands, readers have to click a link to read the entire article (warning: effort involved!).
Example: http://myheathenheart.com/category/other-stuff/
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there – category pages, like the one you linked to, usually do just provide an excerpt of the post.
Most folks who have a blog usually create a page where their blog “lives” – and that page would show your full posts, one underneath the other, with no “Continue reading” links.
If you’d like to set that up, just create a page called Blog (or something else). Leave the page content blank, as this is just a placeholder.
Then go into Settings > Reading – and next to “Front page displays” > “Posts page” – choose the Blog page you just created from the drop-down list.
You should now have a new menu item called Blog, and your blog posts will now be displayed there in their full form.
Just let me know if you need more help.
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Hi Kathryn
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this for me. I think I’ve broken Twenty Ten, though, because I seem to have ‘Home’ as a static page of ‘About Me’ (because the drop down menu wouldn’t let me choose anything else).
I’ve just now tried creating a new page as you instructed and then de-selected ‘static’ so I could select ‘Your Latest Posts’, but it isn’t bringing up a drop-down menu at all :(
I broke WordPress and Twenty Ten, didn’t I?
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Don’t worry – you broke neither Twenty Ten nor WordPress. :-)
I think the only problem was that you hadn’t published your Blog placeholder page, it was still a draft. I went ahead and did that for you, and chose Blog for your posts page under Settings > Reading.
Just take a look and let me know if this works for you!
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