how to customize the “insert more tag”?
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hello i would like to change my “insert more tag”… it automatically says “read more…” does anyone know how to customize the text?
THANK YOU!
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Go to the support pages and type in “read more” and the support document tells you how to customize the text.
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is it possible to move the insert more tag on a post to the left, right or centre? currently most of my insert more links are flush to the left…
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Not without causing HTML errors. The reason is that the post is truencated right at the end of the more tag. If you wrap it in say, center tags, then the ending center tag is not on the front page, and it will cause HTML errors and in most cases will break your blog causing everything on the blog main page to go to center alignment.
To change it without causing issues you would have to have access to the underlying PHP script theme files, and we do not have access to those.
On some themes, if the read more tag is “styled” in the CSS, you would be able to change the alignment, but that would require some CSS editing experience and the paid CSS upgrade.
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the thing is that i have managed to centre some of my insert more tags before, without messing up the html, but i can’t seem to do it anymore…
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You might not have had it mess up the blog (it won’t necessarily so that everytime), but at the very least it creates validation errors and search engines aren’t fond of those. WP has been, over the past year it seems, working on automatically taking care of a lot of those situations that used to pop up multiple times each day in the forums (such as formatting applied to read more). They did the same thing with pasting from MS Word and now instead of letting the pasted text come in with all the bad Word code that messes things up, they just automatically strip it out.
It could be that WP now strips the tags out from around more tags to prevent the validation errors and possible breaking of the blogs.
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@tsp – re your 2nd post: That’s what I thought too, but I tried it anyway and checked the source code: strangely the closing tag was there. So this should work with no problems:
<p align="center"><!--more--></p>
(Or div instead of p) -
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thanks panagh!!! after seeing your example i managed to centre AND bold my tag! you can see it on my blog! :D
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the trick might be manually typing in the html in the HTML box instead of using the clickable functions in the Visual box…
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