"Nesting" posts on Twenty Twelve

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  nirsnet · Member · Apr 11, 2014 at 3:29 am

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  Not sure “nesting” is the right word here, but….

  I’m using Twenty Twelve; rather than have each post appear in full separately, I want to set it up so that only a portion of the post appears–at the end of which would be a “read more” link or something to direct people to the rest of the article.

  The idea is for people to see the 3-4 or so latest posts when they open the site, rather than have to scroll down all the way through to find the post they want (a la DailyKos, for example).

  Is that possible? Does anyone know how to do that? Or do I need to find a different theme that would let me do that (and if so, how much of a pain is it to switch themes in mid-stream?)

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Apr 13, 2014 at 3:02 am

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  Hi there,
  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/

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  timethief · Member · Apr 13, 2014 at 3:04 am

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  Also note that you set the number of posts that will be displayed on the front page here > Settings > Reading
  Blog pages show at most __posts
  … “save changes”

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  nirsnet · Member · Apr 14, 2014 at 8:46 pm

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  Perfect! Thank you!

  Any chance you know how to make changes to the right column in 2012? I want to add a blogroll there but haven’t figured out how to change it (and if it’s not obvious, have very little time/expertise to try to figure these things out…)

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  timethief · Member · Apr 14, 2014 at 9:28 pm

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  Hi again,
  To create a Blogroll in your dashboard see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/add-a-blogroll-link/
  To use a Links widget to display it see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/#links-widget

  All widgets are installed and uninstalled at > Appearance > Widgets
  All themes here will display a default display that appears to contain a sample set of widgets in the sidebar and/or sidebar when you have not yet added any of your own. Go to Appearance > Widgets and add the widgets you desire and configure them and the default display will disappear.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/
  For more widget tips see here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/08/02/8-hot-wordpress-com-widget-tips/