Only show beginning of post on homepage

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    benreynolds94 · Member ·

    Is there a way to make your homepage only show the beginning (first 10 or so lines) of your posts, instead of the full text, and then have a “Read More” button to read the full post?

    I’ve only done 1 post so far and I plan on breaking it up into 5 sections, but if you check out my blog for a second (www.as3gametuts.wordpress.com) you can immediately see that I need to do something to shorten my homepage :)

    Oh, and on a side note, what’s the best way to break up my post (which is a tutorial) into multiple pages? Would I just create multiple posts and then link from one to another at the end of each post? I just want to break up the tutorial because it is a little intimidating if it is all on one page because it is so long, but if it was spread over, say, five pages it wouldn’t be so intimidating for a new reader.

    Thanks very much,
    Ben Reynolds

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    hallluke · Member ·

    The more tag will do that for you. If you want to post everythinng in one go but have each section appear on seperate pages you can use nextpage too.

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    rmartinezvlzqz · Member ·

    harrythehandyman suggested the following link to split the content. You can select where to make the split and inset a “more” tag.

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

    You can also select a theme that presents only a portion of each post like Inuit I’m using. Please read this article on Inuit suggested to me by timethief

    Featured posts/images in Inuit Types

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