Affordable WordPress Websites - Kim Woodbridge
Last week I wrote about using the WordPress More tag to control the content displayed on the front page of your blog.
As I mentioned, you can have the More link say anything you want. WordPress also provides a CSS class for the more link that you can use to style it.
Most WordPress Themes are set up to display the full post on the front page rather than the excerpt. If you display a number of articles on the front page, such as the 10 that are in the default WordPress settings, this can make for a very long front page.
I like to use the More tag to display the first paragraph or so and then have a link that says Continue or Keep Reading. And what is nice about using the More tag is that you don’t have to edit any templates – it is right on the toolbar in both the html and visual editors.
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