Settings -> Reading summary does not appear to work for my site

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  crossingforks · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 9:52 pm

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  I clicked Settings -> Reading and selected “summary” for showing articles in a feed but it did not work.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 9:56 pm

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  It works. Did you look at your feed?

  To truncate articles on the blog itself, you need the MORE tag, the one that looks like a dotted line cutting across a page.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 9:56 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. And I see only post summaries in your feed http://crossingforks.wordpress.com/feed/

  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

  To control the number of posts displayed on the front page go to > Dashboard > Settings > Reading
  Blog pages show at most _ posts
  “save changes”

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  crossingforks · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 10:52 pm

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  Thank you both!

  Yes, indeed what I was looking for was the MORE tag.

  Best,
  Hashem

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  timethief · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 10:59 pm

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  Best wishes to you too.