Twenty Sixteen Theme – Read More Button

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  beccaelligcorpcore7com · Member · May 10, 2018 at 7:37 pm

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  I need a way to shrink blog posts. I just want to show a small part of each post on the home page with a read more link.
  I have my settings set to only show a Summary in the feed. But it’s not doing anything.
  Any ideas?

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  timethief · Member · May 11, 2018 at 4:45 pm

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  Please provide the URL starting with https:// of the site your refer to.

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  timethief · Member · May 11, 2018 at 4:48 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/