my posts are showing in full rather than as excerpts

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    alreadythis · Member ·

    My full posts are showing on fb, so it makes clicking on the link to the blog pointless for readers! What am i doing wrong?

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    timethief · Member ·

    When it comes to inserting “the more tag” AKA “the read more tag” into posts to shorten front page display be splitting text there is no universal setting for the whole blog. This is done post by post.

    Although you can set your RSS Feed to summary, that 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

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    alreadythis · Member ·

    Hi, thanks for replying.

    Now I’m in a mess & confused. With the help of the engineers support, we made some changes. We created an excerpt, then we tried the ‘more tag’ and nothing helped. This morning however I can see that the posts on my blog page are now summaries.
    I also just did what you said about the RSS feed.

    I never wanted the posts on my site to be summarised, just the shares of it on fb. That still hasn’t changed however! So now I don’t know which bit to ‘undo’. Please help?!!!

    Just to be clear, I just want the fb shares to be a summary, but the actual post on the blog page i want to be the whole thing.

    Thanks

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    blogofkirsty · Member ·

    Hi. This might help a little. It may be worthwhile you breaking the link betwe!!en your blog and FB and then recreating it. The steps you need to follow are here:
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/
    I hope that helps a little – good luck!

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    timethief · Member ·

    @alreadythis

    I never wanted the posts on my site to be summarised, just the shares of it on fb. That still hasn’t changed however! So now I don’t know which bit to ‘undo’. Please help?!!!

    See here please for what appears in your RSS Feed for posts https://rebekahmaroon.wordpress.com/feed/

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