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Using The More Button To Add A Read More

Published on March 5, 2014

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When I started my second site I wanted to use a different theme then my first. I spent a lot of time combing through the plethora of them available looking for one that met my criteria. Finally I had one that worked the way I wanted, that is until I published my first post...

There on my home page blog roll was the entire post start to end. The one thing I did not like about this is that it basically just cut off the comments section. We strive to make our sites engaging and I wanted the comment section to be a part of the post experience.

Even though I thought I could change an option within the theme to show a summary on my home page, it did not work. Then the great community here came to my aid and taught me about the "more" button that would do just what I wanted.

Follow These Steps:

After you have written your post, go back up to your Intro Paragraph

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Now you are going to want to switch over to your Text Tab. Put Your cursor just after the end of your introduction.

Then just click on the "more" button.

One you do that you will see the following HTML code inserted into your post:

Now when you switch back to the Visual Tab is should look like this:

And when you publish the post it will show up on your Blog Roll like this:

Hope this can avoid some of the frustrations I went through trying to figure this out. If you still have any questions please feel free to ask!

Keep Working It!

James W D

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