More Tag Position

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  pixelhq · Member · Mar 19, 2016 at 4:47 pm

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  Hi,
  Is it possible to change the position of the place in my post that the More Tag jumps to? When a user clicks ‘continue reading’ I want the full post to be displayed.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 19, 2016 at 4:52 pm

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  In a single word “no”.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 19, 2016 at 4:56 pm

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  Not all themes are designed to display full posts on the front page. In fact, most themes no longer do that but are designed to display front page post excerpts only.
  https://selademo.wordpress.com/
  https://wordpress.com/themes/sela/

  Themes that provide automatic post excerpts on the front page followed by “read more” links like yours can sometimes be made to display full post through use of the excerpt box below the editor.

  If you use a theme that automatically displays front page excerpts then here’s the workaround to compel the display of full posts on the front page. Edit the posts and look below the editor box to locate the excerpt module. You can control the length of the excerpt displayed on the front page and the exact excerpt that is displayed there. However, none of the HTML, for example, images and embeds will be active in your new full post excerpt.

  You compose your whole post first and before you publish it you switch to the HTML (Text) editor, copy the code for what you wish to appear, paste it into the Excerpt box below the editor, and publish the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/#creating-excerpts
  If you want to create your own excerpt for each post then that will have to be done on every post.

  Alternatively, you can switch to using a theme that does NOT automatically display front page excerpts. This is a list of only SOME active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content that you will want to avoid choosing. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410

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  pixelhq · Member · Mar 19, 2016 at 6:07 pm

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  Hi Timethief, thanks for your reply. The issue I’m having is kind of the opposite. My theme displays full page posts on the homepage but I want to only show excerpts. So I used the more tag in my post. This works great but when the full list is displayed it jumps to the end of the excerpt text whereas I want it to jump to the top of the post.