I really appreciate your help, the link to the particulars concerning the twenty-eleven template is helpful, next time I change, I'll look for detailed articles first.

I'm also working on an e-commerce site on blogger, less choice in templates but more access to the css and html of your site, harder, but doable. The site on wordpress I just wanted to try for school, fun up until today.

Thanks again!

Mike

In the preview everything looked OK, now they are all stock images I think I have to make new sizes of images and reload everything. I thought it would be simple, but no.

I'm an art teacher, this is a learning experience for me, so I did learn something.

Thanks again! I really appreciate it.

So, It will now continue to load all the posts at once, nothing I can do?

Cahneg thees to one that has footer widgets so yoyr can regain control over how many posts appear on your front page. Fortunately changing themes is an easy process that takes only seconds. > Appearance > Themes select a theme and click "activate". As MistyLook is an older narrow theme it's not likely you will have any issues with images when you do so.

Being new, does this sort of thing happen a lot?

During the course of this last year some of the new features which have been introduced have not be appreciated by some bloggers. What's not appreciated is the that changes are introduced by stealth ie. without any warning and without the ability to "opt-out" or "revert". When it comes to infinite scroll, there are many threads you can read to witness what it took to get the footer widget workaround for opting out. I have no idea what the future may hold.

Again thank you muchly!

I've never switched templates, any suggestions as to something that would give me basically the same look, useability, etc.?

I certainly appreciate all the help!

@miketayse
Please note what justpi and I have been discussing.

So the new feature, if I'm understanding this correctly, is intended for all my pages to load(this takes awhile, I'm an art teacher, lots of photos) on the home page so readers don't have to click through.

But I can add a widget to the footer area. Like I said, I'm new to WordPress, using the freebie stuff to try things out, so I'm not sure how to do this.

I went to appearance, saw header, saw background, etc., no footer. Ok. Back to forums. I just want it to load two posts at one time, so it can load reasonably quickly. It used to, now it does not. I have a couple of blogger sites, pretty much the same kind of thing, arbitrary changes to improve things. Does anybody really need all their posts to load up on the front page? What am I missing? How would you utilize this feature?

IMHO, it might not be a bad idea if the powers that be put some kind of little explanation of this feature on the "reading" settings page.

I do agree with you on that. Note that Staff have yet to announce in the official WordPress.com blog that "infinite scroll" exists and has been implemented on sone themes.

Thanks again for the help. It solved the problem perfectly. (I just used an empty text widget. I may eventually use the footer area for something, but since I just converted it over from Quentin, I haven't done much with the layout yet.)

I don't know why that would be considered a good idea. At least as a default.

Thanks again!

If you want one full post on your blog front but several on archive pages, you can switch to Twenty Eleven and use the showcase template page as your front; details here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/workings-of-duster/
Similar special template page available in Splendio and Nuntius.
Or you can switch to The Morning After; details here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/the-morning-after/

I still must be doing something wrong however, because the archives page is also still only showing 1 post per page.

In the majority of themes, posts on category or other archive pages show up just as they do on the main posts page. But in some themes only the beginnings of posts are shown, and in a few themes you only get titles or thumbnails.
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/full-posts-in-archive-pages/

See here for using the excerpt box (Category/Archive pages only) > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/the-excerpt-function/

timethief> Thank you that has helped. The front page looks much cleaner. My only concern now is, if someone goes to search from the archives they too only get one post per page. Is there any way around that? Thank you again for the response.