Summarising posts on front page

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  befitandeatmerry · Member · Apr 2, 2014 at 9:43 pm

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  Can anyone please tell me how to summarise my posts on the front page instead of having the full text? Have tried settings > reading but nothing seems to have changed. Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Apr 2, 2014 at 9:54 pm

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  Hello there,
  The 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/

  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