Posting short stories/adding attachments

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  astoryamonth · Member · Dec 26, 2014 at 7:11 pm

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  Hi!

  I may be being really stupid – but I’ve never used wordpress before and I’m using it to start my first blog.

  Basically I’ll be posting a short story every month, and I wondered if it was possible to both post it on the main page (with the first couple of paragraphs and a link to a full version) and also to post a PDF link of the story in question?

  I’m very rubbish at computers but it strikes me that a 2000-3000 word story is hard to read on a blog so it would be good to give people the options to download it to a more accessible for reading device.

  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Dec 26, 2014 at 7:16 pm

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  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. Then when the “read more” link is clicked it links to the full post on it’s own page.
  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

  For PDFs see:
  Accepted file types here http://en.support.wordpress.com/accepted-filetypes/

  Uploading documents
  See here for accepted file types http://en.support.wordpress.com/accepted-filetypes/ The following processes are outlined particularly for users who wish to upload a document and add its download link to a blog post or page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/uploading-documents/

  Embedding documents
  If you want to embed the document itself into a post, then you will have to use a third party application like Scribd or Google Docs.
  See here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/scribd/

  Embed From Google Docs

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  astoryamonth · Member · Dec 28, 2014 at 10:26 am

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  Thank you!!!