only show summary of post

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    doremon313 · Member ·

    Is it possible for me to set the post so that it will only show a summery of the post in my main page, if after the reader becomes interested, they can click on the link that will take them to the full post, that way I can save on bandwidth, thanks

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    mapsadaisical · Member ·

    Use the “more” tag to split the post after the summary – when you write the post, it is the icon which looks like two boxes with a horizontal dotted line in the middle.

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    timethief · Member ·

    When writing a lengthy post there is an option to having the whole post appear on the front page of your blog. You can break the text and have the remaining text appear on another page.

    Only one theme at wordpress.com I know of the Hemingway theme always displays only excerpts from two posts side-by-side on the front page.

    The Fadtastic theme shows one complete post on the front page and then only linked titles to the other posts.

    Inserting the More Tag
    In all other themes more tag must be added using either the visual rich text editor, the standard editor or hand coding it into each post you that you wish to break the text into smaller segments in.

    (1) If you are using the visual rich text editor then the icon number to use is #13 and you use it wherever you want the text break to occur.

    (2) If you are using the standard editor click the [more] button wherever you want the text break to occur.

    (3) If you are hand coding type in <!–more–> wherever you want the text break to occur.

    (4) If you do not like the text that the theme is hardcoded to provide when you use the more tag you can change it by hand coding in
    <!–more your text goes here more!–>.

    VOILA! Happy blogging. :)

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    jeffreywp · Member ·

    This was very helpful. I can’t believe I missed it. DUH!

    Thanks again!

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    understandingcat · Member ·

    Hi guys,

    I had the same question and thought the easiest way to go would be to choose the option For each article, show Summary under Options>Reading. Chose Summary, Updated Options but still have the full texts on the main page. Any idea why it didn’t work?

    Cheers,
    appropriateresponse.wordpress.com

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    nzphoto · Member ·

    Hi understandingcat, I think ther option you talking about is only for rss feeds, not for use directly in your blog.

    Btw Thank you Guys as i was just looking for this ‘more’ option, it helps a lot !

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    understandingcat · Member ·

    Thanks nzphoto, I will check this, I could have misunderstood.

    As for the <!–more–> tag, it is working, thanks guys!

    UnderstandingCat

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