Creating a post excerpt and using the

Some themes give you the ability to add an excerpt of your post for the front page of your blog Excerpts are also sometimes used in RSS readers or elsewhere on the web, and give a quick summary of your post content To create an excerpt, just tap it into the Excerpt box in the main editor or copy a chunk of your post across into it Alternatively, or in addition to using the Excerpt feature... you can use the "More Tag" in the visual or HTML editor This will cut off your post wherever you place it with an invitation for readers to "Read More..." Clicking on this will bring them to the full post In the Visual Editor, just click the "Insert More Tag" icon wherever you'd like to place the break In the HTML editor, you can either use... the More QuickTag up here... or manually enter the More tag, like this Excerpts are a nice way of keeping your page tidy and enticing readers to check out your individual posts