The full/summary setting at settings > reading is for the RSS feed, not for the site itself.

You may want to try using the excerpt feature. Open a post in the editor, switch to the "text" tab, copy all of the text and code there and then paste it into the excerpt module in the post editor and update the post. Visit the front page of your site and see if the full post is shown. If the post is unchanged, then that means that Sight does not support the excerpt feature for the main page of the blog.

I have more than the required 55 words to do a summary option.

Anyone have suggestions?

The blog is a page on my static website--could this be the issue?

Here is the link to my blog: http://smewritingservices.com/blog-in-focus-3/

Thanks!

Shannon

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

When you get to the home page, it shows all my posts in full form. I do not want the posts fully "open," rather I'd like the first paragraph or just a few sentences, whatever, showing when you get to my page. A summary as it were. I'd like people to have to click a button which says, say, "Click here to continue reading..." so it takes them to the actual page of the post where they can comment and like, etc.

So, I went to Settings > Reading, and I found an option stating,

"For each article in a feed, show (Full text) (Summary)."

So, last night, I clicked on summary, saved it, and went to my home page only to find that the full post was still showing.

My question, then, is this: What do I need to do make this so?

I'm really only concerned about page views, so it if it counts, it's fine.

I want to keep my RSS feed as full text but change what is sent out to my email followers to only a summary.

That does not affect the length of the post displayed on the front page or main page for posts on the blog. To create excerpts there we can split content by inserting "the more tag" http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

I'd like to give email subscribers only a summary, but still allow RSS subscribers to view the full text (since syndicated page views show up in my stats). There doesn't seem to be a way of doing these two things simultaneously.

Is there a solution?

Shows summaries for me - try clearing your browser cache and force a page refresh

Thanks

If you are not successful when searching there is a link for the specific Premium Theme support forum for your theme under Appearance -> Themes in your blog’s Dashboard, but do note that the premium theme must be active and you must be signed in as the user who purchased it in order to see it and post to it.

Thanks for your input thesacredpath!

Just tried liferea and there it looks fine. I guess firefox just chooses to display the "description" instead of the whole post.

This leaves only an issue with displaying the feed in our "planet" site: http://planet.suricata-ids.org/ It worked fine on my selfhosted wordpress 3.4.1. Will talk to the admin to see if it's a setting there or that it can be reloaded or something.

Thanks for your help.

In Chrome the XML does show both an excerpt (<description> and the whole body it seems (<content:encoded>).

Some feed readers (Google reader, etc.) though may not update until after you publish a new post. Most don't do anything until they see new content and even then sometimes it may take a little while for them to refresh the entire feed in their indexes.

I just migrated to wordpress.com. Previously my blog was self hosted. Everything seems fine, except for one detail.

Even though in the dashboard -> settings -> reading I have set "For each article in a feed, show" to "Full text", the feed at http://blog.inliniac.net/feed/ still only shows the summary.

Any ideas on how to resolve this?

Thanks in advance!