List of posts, instead of full posts on Home (Posts) page
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Hi all,
I’ve been looking for themes that have a listing view on the posts pages (home and category pages). But every theme that I think does this, automatically shows the full article.
The way I want it is to show the title and a truncated version of the
blog post.Without any HTML knowledge, is there a way to change this? I’ve tried putting in excerpts, playing with post layouts but none have worked.
I’m using currently is Sela and I’m not on Premium so have no access to the custom design stuff.Thanks in advance!
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You can set your RSS Feed to summary. 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 ext 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
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@Timethief, you have literally saved me so much frustration. Thank you SO much. Tried it – works perfectly!
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