Full Text or Summary

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If you are having difficulty changing your posts from full text to summary or visa versa, there are two places you need to indicate your preference.

In site manager, go to settings>reading>for each article in a feed show>full text or summary. You have to indicate the same setting in customize>post options>post excerpt or full post. I have only used these functions with the themes I have used, but I assume that most themes work the same way.

If you don't like the page break using these settings, you can customize your page breaks in site manager on the Word Press work page. Put your cursor where you want a page break and hit the "read more" icon above.

If you don't like where the page break falls, put your cursor over the "read more" line and select the icon to the right. The page break will disappear.

Page breaks can be used on pages as well, but, in my opinion, full pages are better in the menu or a submenu. A reader who intentionally opens a specific page will probably want to see the whole page without selecting a "read more" option.

Despite offering a list of posts or assigning each post a category, full posts can discourage a reader from moving through your blog roll. Its personal preference, but I think post summaries can help you keep on fishing'!

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Thanks for this Jim.

I agree, for one BIG reason.

How many of us just READ HEADINGS?

We skim even articles here.

By making your blog headlines stick out and only showing the excerpts, more ground is covered for the reader, meaning more of the headlines are seen instead of again, huge patches of text.

At the end of the day, you show variety and the viewer sees a broad range of topics and feel the total luxury of clicking on what they want to.

Best of both worlds.

Thanks for the pearl Jim. Good stuff.
Bless You,
Sam and Deb

I'll try to discover how this applies to my posts. I usually don't change what is already there.

Jim, thanks for the post. Will definitely use the info. -Jim Schupbach

Thanks for sharing that...

Well, I'm definitely bookmarking this one, Jim! Thanks!

Jim (too)

Hi Jim,
Thanks for these interesting tips.

I agree, that a "read more" is better on a blog roll. If a person is not interested in a particular article, I think he/she might be if they can easily skip the one and move on to others.

Thanks again for the tips.

Bill

Thanks! I did not know we could select page break spots!

Thank, you!N Doc!
Messing with my themes...whirling...getting back to it, today!
Thanks...great timing!
Barb

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