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  lmb1302 · Member · Nov 12, 2014 at 10:13 am

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  How do I just show a preview of the blog entry? At the moment, when I post a new blog entry the whole wall of text is there. Is there any way to just show the first paragraph or so and then have a continue reading button to click on? As currently it means there is so much text to scroll through. Thanks

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  timethief · Member · Nov 12, 2014 at 4:55 pm

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  Hi there,

  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.
  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

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  lmb1302 · Member · Nov 12, 2014 at 9:26 pm

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  Thank you for your help :)