The full text of each post is displayed even I chose to display summary

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  letsgohiking · Member · Jul 28, 2016 at 6:18 am

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  The full text of each post is displayed even I chose to display summary, would you please kindly help?
  My blog is letsgohiking.wordpress.com

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  timethief · Member · Jul 29, 2016 at 8:27 pm

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  Note that “the more tag” is not a theme-specific feature. There is also no global setting for it.

  Also, note that 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/

  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

  For other ways to splitting content in posts see > https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/