Title: Make posts show excerpt
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Make posts show excerpt

 *  [idner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idner/)
 * (@idner)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-show-excerpt/)
 * How do I make a post show only a few lines, an excerpt, on the front page of 
   the blog so they have to click to read the whole post?
 * Also, why does it say I have 1 comment when I make a post? Its just my post it
   is calling a comment.

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 *  Thread Starter [idner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idner/)
 * (@idner)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-posts-show-excerpt/#post-346393)
 * ok, figured out excerpt but why does it call my post a comment?

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