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The 2 main advantage of showing excerpts on your blog homepage are

Holding your visitor a bit longer on your blog.
To remove duplicate content.

The code for applying the excerpt rule is quite simple but I would suggest you all to save a copy of your website theme files before you make any changes if them.

Open  your [...]