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  laurenmb23 · Member · Jun 22, 2016 at 5:19 pm

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  I’m trying to make it so that my posts show just a preview and if the person wants to read the post they can click on it to see the entire post.
  So home page will be just previews of all my post and then they can view the entire post by clicking on the post. Any ideas how I can do this? I am using the Baskerville Theme

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  timethief · Member · Jun 22, 2016 at 5:34 pm

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  Note that “the more tag” is not a theme-specific feature. There is also no global setting for it. It can only be embedded into individual posts and pages.

  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. Use this filter for active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content. https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/blog-excerpts

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

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  laurenmb23 · Member · Jun 22, 2016 at 5:44 pm

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  Thank you so much! this was very informative and helpful.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 22, 2016 at 5:46 pm

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  You’re welcome. :)