Post “thumbnails”

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  cravethought · Member · Oct 19, 2007 at 2:53 am

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  My blog has very long posts. I was wondering if there was any way to cut off the number of words shown on the front page, and providing a “read more” link. It would help with eliminating a wall of text for my readers to scroll through.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 19, 2007 at 2:58 am

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  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. In 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. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/15/what-do-all-the-icons-mean/

  (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!–>.

  Do be aware that rss feed stops at the more tag point.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 19, 2007 at 3:00 am

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  [Removed by author – Soooo fast is that TT!!!!]