Emails to Followers

lucialinkletter · Member · Sep 2, 2017 at 8:40 pm
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Good evening,

I recently started a new blog and I am experimenting with the ‘Follow’ function. I signed myself up to follow the blog. When I published a new post, the entire text was shown in the email that I received as a follower. I would rather have the email show only the title and the first few lines, and perhaps a photo. The email that I received was not in the font I use on my blog and the general aesthetic of the email didn’t match my blog’s aesthetic at all. How can I change the settings so that followers receive only a teaser with a link to the full post on the blog?

Thanks,

Lucia

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timethief · Member · Sep 2, 2017 at 9:06 pm
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Most newer themes display excerpts by default. This Themes showcase filter lists all themes that display excerpts by default: https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/blog-excerpts

Most newer themes also have the Content Options panel in the Customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/, which allows you to choose between displaying the full post or an excerpt.

See also: content options https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/content-options/

If you want to display only post excerpts on the front page or the blogs 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/

The read more tag can be inserted once only into any post to change the front page or main page for posts display from full post to an excerpt. The split in the text does not display to you in preview mode but it will be there after the post is published.

Please Read Go Back and Edit Posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#go-back-and-edit-posts and be sure to click Update to publish the after your editing.

For other ways to split content see > https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/

Every theme has a detailed theme description page like this one at https://wordpress.com/theme/cubic/ That’s where set up instructions for it are found.

All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/
timethief · Member · Sep 2, 2017 at 9:07 pm
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The email that I received was not in the font I use on my blog and the general aesthetic of the email didn’t match my blog’s aesthetic at all.

I’m sorry but we cannot control the font in the emailed post updates sent to subscribers.

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