Themes for Articles

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  cehogue · Member · Feb 9, 2016 at 6:23 pm

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  Hi there! My blog is about racing in my area and I post articles. I used to use the Expound theme on my old blog and I liked that because it had the feature image and a short blurb and the title for each post on the home page and it was easy to scroll down through and find one. But now I use the Sela theme because I like having the sidebar where I can have my blog’s logo and I like the layout of the top of the blog, but it shows the whole article on the home page and makes it difficult to go find older articles because you have to scroll forever. Any suggestions on a good theme that would show just the titles and featured images of each article on the home page?

  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 9, 2016 at 6:25 pm

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  What is the exact URL starting with http:// of the site you refer to please?

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  cehogue · Member · Feb 9, 2016 at 6:47 pm

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  It is http://www.flirtingwdirt.wordpress.com

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  cehogue · Member · Feb 9, 2016 at 6:48 pm

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  My old one was http://cehogue.wordpress.com

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  cehogue · Member · Feb 9, 2016 at 8:56 pm

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  So the more I think about it, is there a way to set it so that the posts on the home page don’t show the whole post, but just a blurb? If I could just configure this theme to make it work, I would rather do that than switch the theme. Is there a way to do this?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 11, 2016 at 12:13 am

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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/