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Hi

I’m using the twenty twelve theme, with a child-theme installed. I can’t seem to figure out:

a) How to change the settings to only display a summary of the posts with a “read more” link.

b) On you’re in the posts, it only seems to have a link back to whatever the previous post was, not back to the page you just came from.

Could someone give me a few pointers? Please note that I have been using WP for less than a week, so this is all completely new to me. If you could dumb it down, that’d be great!

If it helps, me site is: http://www.thatstypical.me

Thanks,
Andy