Reducing text shown so you can click to read more?

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  cofiveyo · Member · Feb 13, 2018 at 12:48 pm

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  How do I create a blog post that doesn’t show the whole text but instead has a short body of text that allows you to click on to open the post and read further?

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  skobraf · Member · Feb 13, 2018 at 12:55 pm

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  Hi

  Most newer themes also have the Content Options panel in the Customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/, which allows you to choose between displaying the full post or an excerpt.

  See also: content options https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/content-options/

  If you want to display only post excerpts on the front page or the blogs 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/

  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 text does not display to you in preview mode but it will be there after the post is published.

  Reagrd,
  Skobraf

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Feb 13, 2018 at 5:23 pm

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  Hi cofiveyo – Goran is an older theme that doesn’t have the Content Options feature, but the More Tag that Skobraf referenced should do the trick. Let us know how it goes!