Title: Short Posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Short Posts

 *  Resolved [devilson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devilson/)
 * (@devilson)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-posts-1/)
 * I see allot of blogs that use short posts on there home pages and i have searched
   everywhere and cannot find out how to do it.
 * Image: [http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3531/postpi.png](http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3531/postpi.png)
 * That is what i want it to look like.
    Thank you.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-posts-1/#post-1415167)
 * Theme designers use [template tag](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags),
   [the_content()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content), to display
   the full post, and [the_excerpt()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt),
   to display a summary.
 * [Read the first four questions here](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Layout_and_Design#Text_and_Content_Display)
 * Also see:
    [Excerpt](http://codex.wordpress.org/Excerpt) [Customizing_the_Read_More](http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More)
   [Stepping Into Template Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Template_Tags)
   [Stepping Into Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates)
   [Template Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)
 *  Thread Starter [devilson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devilson/)
 * (@devilson)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-posts-1/#post-1415350)
 * Thank you it worked great.

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 * Last reply from: [devilson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devilson/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-posts-1/#post-1415350)
 * Status: resolved

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