Minimizing Posts

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  bryan1128 · Member · May 12, 2022 at 9:04 pm

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  Good afternoon, whenever I view my posts, they are displayed inits entirety. I would like to minimize them so that they have to be clicked on to be viewed to incentivize readers to explore my work. Kind regards.

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  staff-totoro · Staff · May 13, 2022 at 12:04 am

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  Hi there,

  To clarify, you would prefer that there be no text at all? Just a title and then the visitor can click on that to read the full poem on the next page?

  That is possible to do on your theme, but I do not recommend using the “excerpt” function in WordPress (which displays a brief snippet of the poem. as our excerpt function will strip out any formatting you use in your poetry, so it will not look as intended.

  Thanks for clarifying.

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  bryan1128 · Member · May 26, 2022 at 1:04 am

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  Good evening,

  Yes, I will take your suggestion and have it only display the title. Could you describe how is it that I change it? Thank you and sorry for the delayed response.

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 26, 2022 at 6:07 am

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  Hi there,

  I see you already have a static front page for your site. Do you want to display your posts on that page, or on a separate “Blog” page?

  Depending on that, either edit that page, or create a new page under Pages ->All Pages, and add the Blog Posts Block to that page. This block lets you specify how many posts to display, as well as whether or not to display an excerpt – if you don’t display the excerpt, it will only show the title.

  https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/blog-posts-block/#block-settings

  Let us know if you run into any trouble setting that up :)