Show summary/excerpt instead of full post on feed

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  commanderbedlam · Member · Dec 6, 2013 at 11:26 pm

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  Hi there,

  I am using twentyfourteen theme for my website http://www.gamemoir.com

  I really like it, but I noticed that the recent posts show the full length of the articles. It can get quite tedious for readers to scroll down especially if it’s a long post.

  I already set it to only show “summary” instead of full text, but to no avail. Help?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 6, 2013 at 11:30 pm

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  Go to > Settings > Reading and select “summary” rather than “full text” for the RSS Feed entry and then click “save changes” .

  For each article in a feed, show
  _ Full text
  _ Summary

  That’s exactly what I do to drive my followers to my blog.

  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/

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 6, 2013 at 11:32 pm

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  Well, that setting is for your RSS feed, not your blog. Use the More tag for your blog: http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

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  commanderbedlam · Member · Dec 7, 2013 at 12:15 am

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  Thanks for the input guys. The more worked perfectly!

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  timethief · Member · Dec 7, 2013 at 12:17 am

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  You’re welcome and best wishes.