Posts from December 2016

Using the "More" Tag to Break After Specific Point

Normally, an excerpt is shown on the short view of a post (when viewing multiple posts). The excerpt is either manually entered by you or automatically generated from the first few sentences of a post. Instead of showing the excerpt, you can show the first part of your actual post content (including formatting, images, etc.) and control where it breaks.

For example, you are reading the main post content right now (not an excerpt) and the “more” tag has been placed directly after this paragraph. As a result, on the short view, no more content is shown after this paragraph. Instead, a button for reading the rest of the content is shown. The user then clicks that to view the full post.

Contrast

Born to a sinful man who tried to teach me faith, instead I inherited his constant need for grace. Like countless others born on that day. Like countless others born the same way. My life was serving the god of my gut: Ignored the Love self-worship cut. Vain-hoping to avoid the reaper, but I’m a weak man – my gut, weaker. The…