Most WordPress Themes are set up to display the full post on the front page rather than the excerpt. If you display a number of articles on the front page, such as the 10 that are in the default WordPress settings, this can make for a very long front page.

I like to use the More tag to display the first paragraph or so and then have a link that says Continue or Keep Reading. And what is nice about using the More tag is that you don’t have to edit any templates – it is right on the toolbar in both the html and visual editors.
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