How do you display stories in a summarized version on the homepage?

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  logeslouis · Member · Sep 25, 2014 at 10:09 pm

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  I wish to display the stories on the homepage of my blog with just a picture and the first paragraph or so of the story and then when a user clicks on the title he/she will be taken to the longer version of the individual story. I do not want the homepage of the blog to just be a wall of 10 complete stories. I would like the homepage to show 10 summarized clippings, like the summary ad for an Ebay ad, that shows you the full story once you click on it. Thanks so much!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 25, 2014 at 10:24 pm

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  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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  hallluke · Member · Sep 25, 2014 at 10:27 pm

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  Have a look at the descriptions of excerpts and the more tag for splitting content.

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  logeslouis · Member · Sep 26, 2014 at 6:29 pm

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  thanks guys!

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