How to summarise articles on home screen

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    withallihave · Member ·

    I have my home screen set to show my recent articles. I can only get it to show each article in full, whereas I would really prefer only to show the header picture, and a summary of each article next to it. That would shorten the length of the home screen considerably, and mean that I could use widgets on the footer more effectively. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do this, any help would be greatly appreciated. Is this related to the theme I use?

    Regards,

    Dave.

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    timethief · Member ·

    No this is not related to your theme.

    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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