Why isn't my blog showing a summary of my posts rather than full text?

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  whitsundaymtbc · Member · Oct 16, 2013 at 3:56 am

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  My blog shows full text of each article. I want it to only show a summary.

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  amightywp · Member · Oct 16, 2013 at 9:34 pm

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  Hi there,

  You’ve got a couple of options if you only want the summary of your articles shown on your blog page:

  1) You can make use of the “More” tag which is built in to WordPress.com. You can read about the more tag right here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

  2) You can switch your theme to one which natively supports excerpts. These themes will by default display a Featured Image as well as the first sentence or two of your post along with a “Read More” link. You’ll have to hunt for theme, but two such themes are:

  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/oxygen/
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  http://theme.wordpress.com/opti/