I now have 10 blog posts on this blog so it is time to do some housekeeping on it to tidy it up so my readers, like yourself, find the posts easily. I love the ‘Read More’ button (see image below). Have you heard of it or seen it on another blogs?
You can see this Read More button in visual editor. It allows you to show an excerpt of your post so you can show more posts to the whole screen. This looks better and makes it easier for the reader to find a post they would like to read. When you have a lot of posts this does help the reader considerably.
You can also change the text, so instead of it saying “keep reading’ or ‘read the rest of this entry’ or ‘continue reading’ you can add your own message. You can do this by going to HTML editor and finding the More tag which will have <!– in front of the word ‘ more’, add a space, then write whatever message you want. Does that sound clear? If not then just try it out and then just publish the post and have a look at it in visual editor.
I like to show one or two paragraphs then insert the More tag and apply it to my older posts first. One word of caution though for existing posts. Just make sure you don’t insert the tag within another HTML tag like a bold (strong) text as this will screw things up. If you see that then move the tag to outside the other tag.
That is just a simple tweak I have done to the blog this week so more posts are showing as I want readers to be able to see as many posts as they can to the screen just by pressing a little button. Why not try it out on a few older posts you have on your blog.
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Pauline,
Thanks so much for this post.
Somebody else asked me this question the other day, but I didn’t know what the answer was.
They came to my blog and saw that I had it set up, but its an automatic option set up with the theme that I have (…at least I know now what that button is for. Was wondering lol…)
Thanks again.
Reach new heights,
Nathan
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Your welcome Nathan
Yes, I love the read more button too! It definitely makes your homepage look more cleaner.
You’re doing a great job Pauline, keep up the good work!
Anna
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Thanks Anna
hey pauline nice post, ive got the read more button on my blog now, but i was looking how to do it for ages, i finally got it. It really makes your blog so much more cleaner but also makes people want to read your posts.
talk soon
Yours In Success
Jonny Balfour
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Hi Pauline,
I think this is good also for clean up. I don’t a lot of posts as yet and mine tend to be short at present. Will look at this when my posts gets longer. Thanks for sharing.
- Louis
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Hello Pauline,
Thanks for the great info here regarding tips for cleaning-up posts. I have just been searching for the very thing that you just explained. I wondered how to put a link from part of a post to the entire post but didn’t know how to making this happen. Thanks for the helpful info! You have just saved me lots of time!
Congratulations on finishing your videos! I haven’t started video yet but will be going that route soon.
Warmly,
Alice