Show entire blog past rather than excerpt
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When I write a blog post, the default for my theme is to show only an excerpt. I would like the entire blog post to show up on the page. I already went into ‘Reading Settings’ and changed ‘For each article in each feed, show’ to ‘Full Text’ and nothing happened. Help please?
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These days most themes are not designed to display full posts on the front page of the site. The summary setting for the RSS Feed has no impact on the post display the front page of the site.
Your theme is designed to display front page excerpts only https://wordpress.com/themes/argent/
Know that themes that provide automatic post excerpts on the front page followed by read more links like yours does can sometimes be made to display full post through use of the excerpt box below the editor. However, no HTML will be active in the posts if you do what follows.
If you use a theme that automatically displays front page excerpts then here’s the workaround to compel the display of full posts on the front page. Edit the posts and look below the editor box to locate the excerpt module. You can control the length of the excerpt displayed on the front page and the exact excerpt that is displayed there.
You compose your whole post first and before you publish it you switch to the HTML (Text) editor, copy the code for what you wish to appear, paste it into the Excerpt box below the editor, and publish the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/#creating-excerpts
If you want to create your own excerpt for each post then that will have to be done on every post.I suggest that you switch to using a different theme. This is a list of only SOME active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content that you will want to avoid selecting. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410 Don’t choose one of them.
re: switching themes
Themes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. You can quickly and easily change themes on any WordPress.COM hosted blog to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and no data will be lost or negatively affected by the change. The only time you may have to do some work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme and have done any CSS editing.
Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes, Browse themes until you find one you like and click the “activate” or the “preview” link, or type in the name of the theme you want to use when it appears.
The theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/ provides a preview function for exactly that purpose ie. so you can view what a theme will appear like prior to changing one.
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