Post Description Feature Idea

tomfromtechnoteamblog · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 4:50 pm
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I know that we have the meta tags system on WordPress.com but I don’t think that there’s currently a post description feature available on WP.com.

Here you can see that on the WP.com official blog http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/early-theme-adopters-syntax/ there is a post description underneath the main post title. I think that it would be good if we could have this feature available on all of our blogs and themes.

Thanks,
Tom

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timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 4:58 pm
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That’s a custom theme and we don’t get access to it. The likelihood over 200 themes will be changed to accommodate your request is very l,ow or even non-existent.

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

Alternatively you can switch to using a theme that automatically displays front page excerpts. This is a list of active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content. Here are the themes that do provide that feature > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410
tomfromtechnoteamblog · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 5:00 pm
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Thanks for them links, I’ll take a look at them now.

If WP.com probably won’t add this feature to all of the current themes, can’t they add the feature to all of the new themes that are coming soon?

Thanks,
Tom
timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 5:09 pm
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We can already insert the more tag after teaser text into each and every post we publish.
Alternatively we can use a theme that provides front page excerpts automatically.
We can already set the RSS Feed to summary here > Settings > Reading.
Hence, I have no need for what you propose.

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