No reply to emails
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I have been trying to get an answer regarding my blog always showing full posts when I have set it to Summary. I cannot get any replies to any emails since 19th December. Please help.
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Hi there – I see that Grace answered your last question about this. Did you not get her reply?
The summary option you picked applies to how your blog appears in email subscriptions and in RSS feeds. It doesn’t change how your posts appear on your actual blog.
For that, you can use the More tag in each post:
More TagLet me know if you have further questions!
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Hi Eurello
Grace has not been responding to my emails since 19th Dec so the answer is no.
I never knew about the more tag. Thanks but doesn’t it apply by individual post?
I’m not sure what you are saying. I always used to be able to show all my blogs in summary but you seem to be saying this is not now possible. Is that correct?
What has changed and what has email subscriptions got to do with viewing my blog?
Lastly. What then does Reading Settings ‘For each article in a feed show summary mean?’
Hope you can explain
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Hi Eurello.
I thought it may be helpful for you to read the WP instructions on this subject which I have always followed and may explain better why I am confused.“For each article in a feed you can select Full text or Summary. Full text means that the entire contents of a post are included in the feed.
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means that only the first 55 words are included in the feed, along with the option to continue reading the rest of the post.”
James
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Hi James – “In a feed” means in your RSS feed. Many readers subscribe to blogs through RSS feed so that they can read them in an RSS reader, such as Feedly or the WordPress.com Reader. If you select summary for this, then they will see the excerpt of your post in their feed reader, with a link to your blog for the full post.
Whether your posts appear as summaries or full posts on the front page of your blog itself is a function of the theme you are using. Twenty Fourteen shows full posts. However, no matter what theme you’re using, you can always split your content in each individual post by using the More tag.
Does that clear things up? :)
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Hi Eurello.
I think I understand. I was using 2010 before so I assumed 2014 was the same. I wonder why WP excluded the summary option. People hate to have to scroll.
Can I just clarify two things:
1 From what you say presumably I have to go back and edit all my posts since the beginning if I want to show summaries and not full posts?
2 Grace told me she was seeing summary posts but I wasn’t. That confused me and still don’t understand it if 2014 doesn’t do it.
regards
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Hi James,
From what you say presumably I have to go back and edit all my posts since the beginning if I want to show summaries and not full posts?
Correct, with this theme. Although you could just do it for the most recent, since really, anyone going to your archives will likely be clicking through to a specific post page anyway.
Another option would be switching to a theme that shows summaries on the front page by default. Some I know of off the top of my head:
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sight/
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/oxygen/
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/ideation-and-intent/
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/grisaille/There’s also a list here, but this is a bit older of a thread and not all of these themes are still active:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=17#post-1396410Grace told me she was seeing summary posts but I wasn’t. That confused me and still don’t understand it if 2014 doesn’t do it.
I took a look at that thread, and I believe Grace thought you were referring to your RSS feed, which does show summaries. Sorry for the confusion about this!
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I’ve just changed to 2014 and I love it so am not going to change again. The settings page is obviously incorrect as it gives the option between full or summary posts. This has wasted a lot of your and my time but will just have to live with it. What I have done is reduced the number of posts per page to 2 otherwise you have to scroll forever. I really can’t understand why WP took that important option out. Crazy.
Thanks james
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Hi James – I’m glad you found a workaround, and that you’re liking 2014. That setting appears for all themes, and it only controls what shows in an RSS feed, not on the blog.
Most of our themes show full posts on the front page rather than excerpts, because that gives bloggers the most control — if you have full posts, you can create excerpts if you want using the More tag, but if the theme shows excerpts by default and you want full posts, there’s nothing you can do.
I’m sorry this was confusing! Let us know if there’s anything else we can help with.
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I think I am beginning to understand the reasoning now. Thanks. Anyway I decided to go through all my posts yesterday and ‘MORE’ the longer ones and go back to 5 posts per page. So I am finally where I want to be and think it works better for readers. One of the big issues I have with so many blogs is that you can scroll a page forever. It can’t see the purpose and you never know whether there are any Footer widgets or not.
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Yep, I do understand that. The nice thing about the More tag is if you ever do switch your theme again in future, the More tags will still be there, so your posts will still show excerpts as you’ve set them up.
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Thanks again Eurello for all your help.
May I suggest that in the Reading Settings the wording is changed from “For each article in a feed, show” to
“For each article in a RSS feed, show”.
I may save a lot of your time having to explain to people like me.
regards
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