Want homepage to show excerpts, not full articles

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  islesky · Member · Oct 26, 2014 at 8:30 pm

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  I want my homepage to show excerpts not full articles – my theme, Penscratch, does not support the excerpt module. How do I do this?

  thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 26, 2014 at 8:32 pm

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  Hi 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

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 26, 2014 at 8:33 pm

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  Either choose a different theme or use the MORE tag, the one that looks like a dotted line across a sheet of paper. Put the cursor where you want the break to be and click the button.