Title: Display Option
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Display Option

 *  [robertrees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertrees/)
 * (@robertrees)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-option/)
 * Hello. I am new to this forum and new to wordpress. I set up my blog at [http://blog.robertrees.org](http://blog.robertrees.org)
   and would like to know how I can limit the post that user sees to something like
   five lines or maybe ten at the most. Currently it shows all three posts that 
   I have in their entirety. I can see in the Options -> Reading page of the admin
   section that I can set Syndication Feeds to show a summary, but how do I do it
   with my own site.
 * Basically I would just like to show a brief synapsis. If the visitor would like
   to read the entire post, then he/she can click on it.
 * If this is explained somewhere in the help docs, then I am sorry in advance. 
   I have not found it.
 * Thanks,
 * Robert

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 *  [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-option/#post-623447)
 * A few factors:
 * 1. You can set the limit of posts showing on any one page by going to Options–
   Reading – Blog Pages
 * 2. To limit the post content – you can either change the code within the index.
   php and single.php files from `<?php the_content(); ?>` to `<?php the_excerpt();?
   >`
 * OR
 * Use the MORE tag within each post. This will cut the post off at the point where
   you insert it so that on the front page, only an extract of the post will be 
   showing. The full content will show on the post page itself.
 *  Thread Starter [robertrees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertrees/)
 * (@robertrees)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-option/#post-623452)
 * Shadow,
    Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post. The MORE tag is exactly
   what I was looking for. I am absolutely loving this blog, it is very well thought
   out with great features.
 * Thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [robertrees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertrees/)
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