Sharing to Facebook

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  gokuthelegend · Member · Aug 20, 2015 at 10:46 pm

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  I noticed something strange. I don’t know if it is a bug or something else.

  From Control Panel –> Settings –> Sharing, my blog is connected to one account in Facebook, and to one account in Google+.

  When I post an article, it is posted only a part of it in Google+ with a link to the blog for the users to read the rest of the article. So far so good.

  But in Facebook is posted the entire article. I don’t like that because then the visitors read the entire article in facebook and they don’t visit my blog, and so I don’t get any statistics.

  Can we do something about that?

  Thanks in advance (and sorry for my English, I am not a native English speaker).

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  timethief · Member · Aug 20, 2015 at 10:48 pm

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  Your English is remarkably good.

  First note that though you can set your RSS Feed to summary, that 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/

  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.

  Alternatively, you can switch to using a theme that automatically displays front page excerpts. This is a list of only SOME active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410

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  gokuthelegend · Member · Aug 20, 2015 at 11:02 pm

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  Thank you for your answer but:

  The RSS setting is already set to “Summary”.

  I know what the “more tag” does and I use it occasionally. But the problem remains either I use it or not. I don’t think that affects somehow the post share to the Facebook page.

  Also I don’t understand how a WordPress theme can affect how something will be posted to Facebook.

  Anyway…

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  timethief · Member · Aug 21, 2015 at 3:43 pm

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  Maybe it’s an issue caused at the Facebook end of things. Please type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for Staff help. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Then please subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.