Collapse-o-matic a must for academic websites
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I’m developing my academic website where I found the following plugin extremely useful: https://wordpress.org/plugins/jquery-collapse-o-matic/. This allows you to hide a lot of text which can be read on demand, and because it is compressed in the site, the webpage looks clean and only the title highlights are visible. I have used it to show the publications in my site: http://www.isid.ac.in/~swaprava/publications.html. It will be a worthy application to have for the users who use wordpress.COM to host their academic homepages.
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The setting here > Settings > Reading is only for the RSS Feed summary and does not affect the posts.
If you want to display only excerpts on the front page of the blog followed by read more links, you can insert “the more tag” into each post prior to publication.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/The read more tag can be inserted once only into any post to change the front page or main page for posts display from full post to an excerpt. The split in the ext does not display to you in preview mode but it will be there after the post is published.
Alternatively, you can switch to using a theme that automatically displays front page excerpts. This is a list of only SOME active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410
Blogger installed plugin capability does not exist on WordPress.COM blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality. You are confusing WordPress.ORG and WordPress.COM. For that type of functionality you’d need a self-hosted site running on a paid web hosting service.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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The more tag has two problems: first, it doesn’t work on pages, and pages are typically what is used for creating webpages. Second, I tried the more tag in a post, but I don’t know for what reason, it didn’t work there either: https://swaprava.wordpress.com/2015/06/24/pubs/ the content after the first 3 lines is below a more tag, but it doesn’t work.
I feel the bigger problem is: we do not want to post excerpts of a post in another post / page. What is needed is that some part of the same page / post is hidden unless the viewer wants it explicitly, like the one in the link I mentioned in the original post. I understand the difference in .com and .org, but at this point I don’t have a domain where I can host a wordpress site, and therefore I’m suggesting this feature for .com alone.
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