Read More Button

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Hello Everyone,

I was wondering if someone in the community knew how I could set-up my blogs at my website so that you could only read a brief synopsis of my articles. Then, if someone would like to read more they would have to click a button that says "Read All." In this way, visitors could read a little from each of my posts, unless they desired to focus on one. I have never set up my site this way, but I am thinking it might be a good change. I would appreciate any help!

Thank you,

Edward Mijarez

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I was wondering about that. Glad you asked.

Thank you Dick!
Ed

Great answers here, thanks for asking the question Ed.

You're welcome Alexander! I already made the switch on one of my posts! I didn't do it to my landing page now cause it looks like a store--holiday specials--you know! Be blessed my brother!
Ed

use two pages...one for the summary with a link to the page containing the full story

Hello my brother! How are you? You're a little late here but that's ok. It's been handled! Take care brother!
Ed

oops.. ok.
Knowing me, i probably gave a dumb answer.
I have been falling off my performance, since my two ordeals with posting images here. Feel like I lost my confidence.

Don't do that! Everything's ok...
Ed

true.

Excellent!
Thank you.

ok if you go to your site in word press. select the the article you want to edit when it comes up place the cursor where you want the read more icon to appear. once you do that in the tray above where you can edit the text size and create a link you will see an icon that has a upper and lower solid line and some dashes in the middle . Click on it and it will make an imaginary line don't forget to click update on each article you do this with. hope this helps

Thank you very much rfriedly!
Ed

you are very welcome

You got it right on the money! Congratulations!
Ed

Hey Ed, Grendall and Moritz have it nailed! Question 0 - WA 1!

I like that Q - 0 WA - 1, thank you for posting!
ED

Ed it looks as tho, you have received some good answers.
Thank you for your question,
Linda

You're welcome!
Ed

They got you covered Ed.

Thank you buddy! I guess they beat you out! LOL
Ed

I would have asked the same question you did and was informed by the answers. LOL

Marty

I don't know for sure, but if you go to WA Settings, then Reading, down near the bottom is a box to check either full text or summary. This might work. That feature came with my theme. It is great, but I didn't put it in. The excerpts box in the screen options at the top is unchecked in my editor, but I still have the feature you are asking about.

You know, I have tried that before and I don't think that will do it, but I think Moritz has got the answer, so we can both learn something. But thank you very much for helping!
Ed

Hi, this depends on your theme.
Some do this automatically, others can be edited to do this.
Others again don't even offer this.

If you have a blog roll on your front page, you have to see if you have options to change that blog roll.
With some themes you can change it to "show excerpts only". Or something like that.

In other themes you have to do this manually for each post.
Edit the post and choose where you want to set the "read more" button.
Then click on "Insert Read More Tag" in the toolbar and a line appears where the excerpt will end.

Then go back to your blog roll, load the page new and see if that worked.
If it doesn't do anything, then your theme might not support it.

Moritz

Thank you very much Moritz! You're the man!
Ed

It sounds like you need Excerpts. While in Edit Post mode, It should be a textbox at the bottom of your Edit Post page if enabled. If not enabled, you can enable it by clicking Screen Options at the top and click the checkbox for Excerpts. Assuming you are using the Read More feature, whatever you type in Excerpts is what will appear in lieu of your post followed by the Read More link; so this is where you want to type your synopsis. Wnen the user clicks the Read More link, only then will the actual text of your post display and expand to its full length.

But one caveat, Excerpts work only if the theme you chose supports it. Many do not. You will know if your theme supports it because you will see the change I described above. If there was no change, you may need to pick another theme.

Thank you Grendall! Appreciate it...
Ed

You're welcome :)

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