Issues with post summary vs full posts

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  hobbyhugger · Member · Feb 18, 2015 at 9:58 pm

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  Hey, I am having trouble with getting my posts to read on my site as a summary. I have checked my settings, it shows that I have selected summary. However on my site it shows the full post. Have I missed something? I am using the Matala theme.

  Thanks for any advice!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 18, 2015 at 10:00 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

  To control the number of posts displayed on the front page go to > Dashboard > Settings > Reading
  Blog pages show at most _ posts
  “save changes”

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  hobbyhugger · Member · Feb 18, 2015 at 10:40 pm

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  Thanks so much! I have started using the “more tag”. It is exactly what I was looking for!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 18, 2015 at 10:41 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes. :)