Normally, an excerpt is shown on the short view of a post (when viewing multiple posts). The excerpt is either manually entered by you or automatically generated from the first few sentences of a post. Instead of showing the excerpt, you can show the first part of your actual post content (including formatting, images, etc.)...
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No Image, Tags, Comments or Sidebar
This is an example of a post with barely any content — no image, tags or sidebar. Comments are off.