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[wildfan]

Sorry if this question doesn't belong here but WF is the best place to get answers on the net.

I would like my blog to show summaries of my posts so that visitors have to click through to the article to read the whole thing.

How do I do that, is there a plugin?

 

[stoxup]

When composing a post, place the following where you'd like for your "Read the rest of this entry" link to appear:

<!--more-->

 

[casidnet]

Put the following in your post where you want it to cut off

 <!--more-->

Make sure you switch to code from visual in the edit/write post section first as well.

 

[geekcognito]

PostTeaser - WordPress Plugin Repository - Trac

Works well.

***Edit - What casidnet works without the plugin I linked you to, but the plugin allows you to accomplish the same thing with the click of a button and also displays how many words are in the post, estimated time to read it, etc. You can edit all this information to suit your needs, though.

 

[wildfan]

Wow, thanks for the quick replies! Will give the
<!--more--> a shot!

 

[wildfan]

PostTeaser - WordPress Plugin Repository - Trac

Works well.

***Edit - What casidnet works without the plugin I linked you to, but the plugin allows you to accomplish the same thing with the click of a button and also displays how many words are in the post, estimated time to read it, etc. You can edit all this information to suit your needs, though.

Thanks, the plugin kicks ass, exactly what I was looking for!

 

[geekcognito]

No prob.

BTW, that's a pretty nice looking blog you got there, but you may want to check out your ad relevancy on your Adsense. Unless you're really trying to get people to click on "Wild Berry Incense" on a hockey blog.

 

[wildfan]

Yes, have been trying to use the ie add on to get the urls to ban them. Is there any other ways of doing this? Is there an add on for firefox yet? hardly use ie.

 

[Rob_TID]

log onto your adsense and add their url to the list of urls you don't want displayed

 

[wildfan]

Thanks, is there a way to add more to your banned list, i have entered the max amount of address', won't let me add more.

 

[Richard Curry]

if you're using the more command, there are many things you can do..
in your theme if you change "the content()" to "the excerpt()" your front page will always show the first 55 words and then show the read more.
to change the wording of the more to something like read more on (title of your post) you need to change your code to say

the_content("...read more on " . get_the_title('', '', false));

lots "more" at Customizing the Read More « WordPress Codex