Changing length of posts that appear

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  inquisitivestudier · Member · Aug 13, 2014 at 8:47 pm

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  Hi,
  I’m new to wordpress and I am currently using the hemingway rewritten theme.
  At the moment, all the posts come up on one page as their full lengths and I would like to change it so that after eg 200 words, it cuts off so there’s less scrolling between the posts. How would I go about doing that?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 14, 2014 at 7:21 pm

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  Hi there. To make only part of the post appear on the home page you need to add the more-tag to the posts in the place you want it to cut off. Make sure you insert the tag on its own line and that formatting like bold or italic isn’t selected when you add the tag as that can create unexpected results: http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

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  inquisitivestudier · Member · Aug 15, 2014 at 8:58 am

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  Would it then come up as “— more words”?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 15, 2014 at 9:31 am

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  The default option is “Continue reading…”, but you can also customise it. Instructions in the support doc.

  If you want, you can click on my username to see how it looks on my blog. It does not differ significantly from one theme to the other.

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