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I’m writing a post for my blog “Dementia isn’t funny.’ The post is at 1500+ words, way too long. I want to divide it into thirds but the ‘read more’ feature doesn’t seem to work.
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Good morning. In addition to the question I sent yesterday, today I can’t even get to my blog’s dashboard. It will open to my most recent post, but when I try to get to the edit page, a dialogue comes up that Safari can’t open it.
Thanks for any help.
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Hi there,
First let me address the issue with the More tag:
The More tag has a very narrow time wherein it is of use. When you insert it into a post and then view that post in your blog feed it will create an excerpt for the first few lines of your article. Once the post is viewed in its entirety, the tag has done its job (the post has been clicked on), and so no excerpt is shown. The more tag is ignored.
So while you can insert multiple instances of the more tag in to a post, it will not have any effect. The post will cut off after the first more tag in the blog feed on your home page and on the actual blog post the more tag does nothing (as it is designed to do).
In regard to you not being able to access your Dashboard, are you still having issues? Are you able to log in to WordPress.com? When you go to https://juditheclarkecares.com/wp-admin does the page also not load?
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Whoops, I apologize, that should have been https://juditheclarkecares.wordpress.com/wp-admin . I’m sorry!
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Yes, not long after I wrote that about my dashboard, it suddenly clicked on. No problems since.
Now I understand about ‘read more.’ You’ve explained it clearly. BUT, isn’t there some feature that allows a single post to be divided? A friend told me about it when she obviously thought some of my early posts on my other blog were too long.
If not, I’ll just divide the one in question into Parts I and 2.
p.s. another question.
In the post I’m working on, ‘Double Whammy’ juditheclarkecares.com
I’ve used several hot links. Some of them don’t work at all, rather they go to a page that says Safari can’t open this…blah blah blah. I’ve never had trouble with hot links before. One links to an earlier post in this same blog, and another links to my other blog, Wherever you go, there you are.Thanks for any help on this matter too.
Judy -
Not many people go for it, but you can split a post or a page up in to several pages using something called Page/Post Pagination. It’s actually quite similar. Here’s the help article on how to use it:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/nextpage/
Could you let me know which links aren’t working so I can get an idea which ones are the troublesome ones? Thanks!
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The hot links that aren’t working are ‘Thinking for two’ and ‘seed for this blog’
The other two seem to be OK now.
Thanks. Judy
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Hiya,
Both of those links are specifically linking to the https:// version of your blog instead of to the http:// version (note the “s” at the end). This indicates that there should be an SSL attached to your site, which there is not right now. When Safari tries to go to the https version of the site and does not find an SSL it returns the error which you’re getting!
If you change the link to take out the https and replace it with an http then it should work for you just fine!
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thank you again.
I’ll take the ‘s’ out. For my information, what the heck is an SSL and how did it get there?
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An SSL is something that allows a page to encrypt all information that is passed from the viewer and the site itself. It’s something that should be in place if a site is accepting credit cards or any other personal information, but really isn’t necessary for normal sites.
We are working on putting in to place the ability for WordPress.com users to protect their sites with SSLs if they want to, but we don’t have that in place right now.
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OK, I deleted the ‘s’ at the end of https, but it won’t stay deleted. (I did it in the browser window which I’m sure isn’t the right way.) Under the ‘links’ tab I found something like ‘create new link’ Is that where I do it?
Thanks for continuing help.
judy -
Hi Judith,
I just went to take a look at your post and I see that you have split it up in to 4 parts by doing 4 different posts. That is definitely one way that you can do this, but if you’re looking to use the “nextpage” tag, that isn’t what is intended. You just need to have your normal long post and you put the tag in the middle of it at some point. The post will then cut off where you put that tag and will show an option to go on to the next page of that singular post.
In regards to your links, I looked in your first 3 parts (I couldn’t look in the last one because you were editing it), and couldn’t find any links. The easiest way for you to fix this is probably for you to remove the link by just deleting that text entirely, retype out the text you want to have linked, and then relink it using the hyperlink tool and make sure that it doesn’t have the “s” this time!
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I am fascinated by the process you Happiness Engineers have.
Yes, I looked at splitting it into four parts, but I don’t like that at all. I’ve put in ‘nextpage tags’ and will probably go with that as I really don’t like it being separate posts. It’s is a hard subject to write about and it’s just long!
Don’t know why you didn’t see the links, they’re there. I’ll do as you suggest and hope I can get rid of the pesky s’s.
You probably haven’t heard the last of me. My friend Andrea is a HE and we had a long thread going at one point when I started this blog.
thanks, judy
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I deleted the hot link “Thinking for two” from the edit page.
I went to ‘media’ and selected “URL”
I typed in the URL for the “Thinking for two” post, MINUS the ‘s’ on http.
Inserted link
Checked it in ‘preview’ and it still shows up as ‘Safari can’t open’ and with the ‘s’.What now?
I’m about ready to stop trying to add links. (I randomly checked other recent posts and some have the ‘s’. How did it get there and what am I doing wrong?
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OK, I think I see the problem. You appear to be adding in a link which our system think is an image but is clearly not, which is why it’s trying to add in the “s”.
When you’re just creating links through the course of writing your blog, you want to use a totally different tool. We have a help article which walks you through it which I’ve linked to below, but the short version is it looks like a bit of chain linked together at the top of the editor. You just highlight the word you want linked and click that. A dialog box pops up and you put in what you want to link to, and that’s it! You’re all done!
Here’s that help article:
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Sorry to be a pest, but…
Tried your latest help and that doesn’t work either. Something else is going on.
For this post, since I want to publish it out today, I’m going to only leave the two links that work, and I’ll do something else for the other two.
I’ve just done a random check and a number of links I’ve used in different posts since I began this blog don’t work, all go to the Safari page and all have the ‘s’ on http.
If you have other ideas, please let me know. Tks.
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HELP!
I went ahead and published ‘Double Whammy’ and the ‘next page
‘ thing didn’t work. ‘next page shows in the text…what did I do wrong and can I change it now?HELP HELP HELP>
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Judith,
As I mentioned, the entire post needs to be in one long post and you use the “nextpage” tag to separate out the individual pages. If you split it in to multiple posts, the “nextpage” tag doesn’t do anything.
If you want to make it work as originally described, all four sections needs to be in one post, and then you use the “nextpage” tag three times to create four sections.
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It also looks like you may have just put the “nextpage” tags in your visual editor. You need to make sure that those go in to the text editor version, or else they will only appear as the words “nextpage”!
A bit about the text editor, in case you’ve never used it:
All you have to do is click on the Text tab in the upper right hand corner of your editor and then put the nextpage in on that screen rather than on the Visual version.
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OK, I deleted ‘next page’ from visual editor and went to text editor and put ‘next page’ in at appropriate spots. Same thing happened, they showed up in preview.
So I opened a new edit page and copied in the whole long post with no ‘next page’ in. Now I’ve put them in in text editor. Hope it works.
BUT is there any way to get rid of the first Double Whammy I posted? And is what I did above correct?
thanks again
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