Title: posts excerpts
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# posts excerpts

 *  Resolved [felyx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/felyx/)
 * (@felyx)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-excerpts/)
 * Hello. Could someone tell me how to show post excerpts on the blog page while
   using scrawl theme. In others words, I want to replace the full post by an excerpt
   followed by “Read more…” Thank you.

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 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-excerpts/#post-6555049)
 * Hi felyx, to display excerpts you can either manually add a More tag to each 
   post to split it where you want, or create a child theme and make a small tweak
   there.
 * The More tag is in the post editor’s formatting toolbar, or you can add it manually
   like this:
 * `<!--more-->`
 * You can even include a custom message like this:
 * `<!--more Keep Reading!-->`
 * In case you’d like the excerpts displayed automatically, you can create a child
   theme, so your tweaks won’t be overwritten when updating the theme. Here are 
   some guides in case you haven’t made one before:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   
   [http://op111.net/53/](http://op111.net/53/) [http://vimeo.com/39023468](http://vimeo.com/39023468)
 * If you decide to go that route, let me know once you’re set up and I can assist
   with the specific code changes.
 *  Thread Starter [felyx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/felyx/)
 * (@felyx)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-excerpts/#post-6555062)
 * Thank you very much for the help Kathryn. I’ll stick to the individual post edit
   for now but the information is all very useful and will come handy as future 
   reference.
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-excerpts/#post-6555088)
 * Sounds good and you’re very welcome!

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 * Last reply from: [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-excerpts/#post-6555088)
 * Status: resolved