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  crabby07 · Member · Jun 9, 2016 at 5:26 pm

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  I have changed my theme to scratchpad and I really like the way it looks but I don’t want the whole post showing, I like it when it shows a picture you have chosen and then the first few sentences followed by a link you click on saying continue reading. How can I edit this rather than having to pick a new theme? I hate the fact you have to scroll down all the posts rather than highlights to get to where you want! Thanks

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  timethief · Member · Jun 9, 2016 at 5:27 pm

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  Note that “the more tag” is not a theme-specific feature. There is also no global setting for it.

  Also, note that 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 in the exact spot you want the content to split off.
  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 content 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

  For other ways to splitting content in posts see > https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jun 9, 2016 at 5:31 pm

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  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

  I just wanted to mention that we now have a filter for themes that display an excerpt on the blog page. (The post linked above is already a few years old and some of the themes mentioned are retired.)

  https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/blog-excerpts