Blog Post Excerpt All

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Describe the feature

post_auto_excerpt defaults to 1 and shows the first paragraph of each post. 0 doesn't show anything, just a link.

Many blogs show the full post on the main page, which isn't unreasonable for the default 5 posts.

I set this to 100, so it basically does that, but this also seems like a typical use case, so it might help to have something easy to handle this. Everything I found related to excerpts assumed that I either wanted a short excerpt or no excerpt at all. Maybe useful for subpages, but seems odd for the main page.

I have a work around for now as mentioned, but looking at Google Analytics, it was obvious this was confusing the vast majority of people.

Proposed solution

I think there are probably a few ways to handle this, but not knowing the internals it is hard to say. Even an option like :fullposts: might make sense (though you'd need to decide what to do when someone does that and :excerpts:)

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