I want blog posts to collapse/preview with links to "Read more".

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  beyondtheblackletter · Member · Nov 15, 2014 at 2:31 pm

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  I want readers to be able to scan multiple posts and see the first paragraph or so, before deciding whether a particular post interests them. I’m using the Big Brother theme. Any help would be greatly appreciate – thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Nov 15, 2014 at 5:21 pm

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  Hi there,

  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/

  Alternatively, you can switch to using a theme that automatically displays front page excerpts. This is a list of active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content. Here are the themes that do provide that feature > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410

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  beyondtheblackletter · Member · Nov 15, 2014 at 10:08 pm

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  Thanks so much for the great response! Much appreciated.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 17, 2014 at 1:23 am

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  You’re welcome.