Janice theme does not show summaries / excerpts on homepage, only full text of blog posts

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  amyleannewagner · Member · Jan 31, 2016 at 12:07 am

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  I am a long time WordPress user and developer, but I’m a first time user on WordPress.com.

  I have purchased a theme ‘Janice’, but unfortunately when I go to settings > reading > ‘For each article in a feed, show’ a) Summary or b) Full text, it will not limit my homepage posts to just the Summary. The option saves OK, but the homepage does not limit the text excerpts only.

  Has anyone experienced the same issue?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 31, 2016 at 12:15 am

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  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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  amyleannewagner · Member · Feb 1, 2016 at 2:06 am

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  Thanks so much, I had no idea the more tag feature existed! Perfect fix.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 1, 2016 at 3:34 am

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  Happy to help. Best wishes. :)

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  theteaduchess · Member · Feb 29, 2016 at 10:41 am

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  Hello! I came here looking for the same thing. Now that I’ve fixed that part, does anybody know if you can move the title of your blog post slightly if there is text or something important in your feature image that it is covering?