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  sharky30 · Member · Aug 3, 2010 at 7:00 pm

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  I want my recent posts on my front page to only show a certain number of lines, then I would like readers to have to click to view the entire post. I have looked through every setting and cannot find if and where I can change this. Can anyone help?

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  sberkun · Member · Aug 3, 2010 at 7:57 pm

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  Hi Sharky30:

  There’s an easy command to make this possible, called More. You can read all about how it works and how to use it here.

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

  Cheers,

  -Scott

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  manojbe · Member · Aug 3, 2010 at 9:41 pm

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  @sharky30:
  You can also make use of excerpts. When creating a post, type in a few lines (a teaser, perhaps?) into the excerpt field.

  Then in wp-admin, goto: Settings -> Reading Settings and change “For each article in a feed, show” to “Summary”

  Now all your posts show excerpts instead of the full text. :-)

  Regards,
  Sterex

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 3, 2010 at 11:52 pm

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  @sterex:

  a) Only a few themes support excerpts on the blog front – see here:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/the-excerpt-function/

  b) That option in Settings>Reading has nothing to do with the actual blog page.