Lead and body
One of the many interesting publishing features WordPress has to offer is the concept of the lead and the body of the post. This may sound like a strange thing, but it's actually quite simple. When you're publishing a new post, you don't necessarily want to display its whole contents right away on the front page. A much more user-friendly approach is to display only the lead, and then display the complete post under its individual URL. Achieving this in WordPress is very simple. All you have to do is use the Insert Read More Tag button, available in the Visual editor (or the more button in the Text editor). Simply place your cursor exactly where you want to break your post (the text before the cursor will become the lead), and ...
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