Summary Of Posts

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  johns2345 · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 9:46 pm

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  Hey everyone,

  I know that you can change the settings to show a summary of every post in your feed, but can you make posts appear in summaries on the main page?

  Thank you for all of your help!

  John

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

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  amydeee · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 10:30 pm

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  Trying to figure out the same thing.

  Amy

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  timethief · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 10:30 pm

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  Yes. 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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 10:31 pm

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  amydeee
  I’m sorry but we cannot provide accurate answers to any blogger who fails to provide the exact URL starting with http:// for the exact blog they refer to so we can verify where it is hosted. Please do that now.

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  amydeee · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 10:33 pm

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  http://theheritagefarm.me

  thanks for the reminder!
  Amy

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  amydeee · Member · Sep 17, 2014 at 10:46 pm

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  Tried the fix, “insert the more tag” which worked. Summary at my chosen location worked perfectly.

  BUT, when I tried to do the HTML adjustment to say “the rest of the story”… it did not load and the summary was gone.

  amy