Read More on one page only
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I’m not sure if this is going to make sense, but here’s the scenario:
I have my blog set up like a website (go figure) and articles are linked in multiple different places. But, say one of my pages is set up like a traditional scrolling blog, can I, on that page only, have the articles say “read more” or will it adjust it for every version of the article across my entire website?
I’m working with the Twenty Fourteen theme.
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Use the MORE tag or change to a theme that does this automatically. https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
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Yep, got that. But, my question was whether or not it would change the look on other pages that also show the article. I figured all that out and I’m just going to use Categories, but now I’m wondering this:
Right now the articles have the “continue reading”, but they are still really big and I’m wondering if there is any way to change how they are displayed. i.e. Can I make it so that when they are displayed they just show the text and the “continue reading” (with no featured image and no share bar)?
Here’s one of the pages to give you an example. Thanks for your help!
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No it does not change the look on other pages.
If you don’t select a Featured Image, there will be no featured image on the main page, but there will be a big hole. Some themes don’t use featured images and don’t do this at all.
Set your sharing option to only display on the specific post pages rather than on index and other pages too.
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That doesn’t really answer my original question, but I did go into sharing and at least figure something else out.
Let’s try another question: is it possible to place widgets in the content area of a page/article??
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But, my question was whether or not it would change the look on other pages that also show the article.
Yes. The More tags added to your posts work not only on the posts page, but also on archives pages (category, author, tag, year, month, etc. archives pages). You can also use More tags in Projects, so they will affect portfolio archives pages as well.
Right now the articles have the “continue reading”, but they are still really big and I’m wondering if there is any way to change how they are displayed. i.e. Can I make it so that when they are displayed they just show the text and the “continue reading” (with no featured image and no share bar)?
Here’s one of the pages to give you an example.Have I misunderstood? The example that you provide, the category archives page for the category “SD Food,” does not have either a featured image or a share bar. Perhaps the latter was fixed after you asked the question.
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Let’s try another question: is it possible to place widgets in the content area of a page/article??
You can put the content of text widgets into posts or pages, but not WordPress widgets. I’ve only tried a few (text widgets in a page), including a clock, if I recall correctly, and a Feedjit live traffic feed widget.
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is it possible to place widgets in the content area of a page/article??
Can you be a bit more specific about what you want to do? As you already know, widgets themselves can be placed in sidebars, but there are a few things that WPcom allows in Posts or Pages as well, such as the Twitter Timeline and RSS feeds via a shortcode (use sparingly or you may be considered an automated blog).
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(use sparingly or you may be considered an automated blog).
What is an automated blog??
Can you be a bit more specific about what you want to do?
I think RSS is what I’m looking for now that I see pics. Basically I want to be able to put something like a “links” or “recent articles” widget in so that the page lists the articles with the “continue reading.” But, I was also wondering if it was possible to add the picture so it looks something like this; bare with me:
picture Article title
picture “Here’s the beginning of the article but in order to get the
picture full story you’ll have to…” Read more ——> -
You could construct your own special archives pages with customized display posts shortcode. For example, you might try something like the following:
[display-posts order="ASC" posts_per_page="-1" include_date="true" orderby="title" include_excerpt="true" image_size="thumbnail" category="sd-food"]
You wouldn’t need Read more tags in this case because for each post the title, and maybe the featured image (I haven’t tested this aspect yet), will link to the full post.
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Only featured images will display with the image_size=”thumbnail” (or medium, large) argument added to the display posts shortcode.
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Basically, WordPress.com cannot be used as an aggregator. It’s designed for you to type original posts into the New Post page and post them, not to draw in RSS feeds to populate the website: that’s called blog scraping and there are serious legal and ethical issues with it, not to mention that search engines hate it and will downgrade you.
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Yeah, my blog definitely has an RSS tool (I’m not sure if this is common or not), sooo I’m not sure why it would be there if it wasn’t okay.
But, will RSS do what I tried to show you with this:
picture Article title
picture “Here’s the beginning of the article but in order to get the
picture full story you’ll have to…” Read more ——>Because yes, I want a thumbnail of the featured image to the left, and then the article name and the beginning of the article with “read more.” Also, how would I place that code in the page? Before the articles? Or just by itself and the articles will automatically transfer based on the code? I’m sorry, I’m new to coding.
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It’s against the terms of service here. It can be done, if you’re quite good with tricky code, but it’ll get your blog suspended.
Click on my name and go to my blog and then come back here and tell us if that is the kind of layout you want. Because there are dozens of themes here that do that automatically, most of them free. It doesn’t involve using an RSS feed to take someone else’s content. It just works on your own blog posts.
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Then use the MORE tag. It’s not one of the themes that automatically truncates blog posts on the main page.
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@ jaztravels,
More tags on your posts (blog) page might be exactly what you’re looking for, but in your original post you said,But, say one of my pages is set up like a traditional scrolling blog, can I, on that page only, have the articles say “read more” or will it adjust it for every version of the article across my entire website?
I’m not sure what you mean by “will it adjust it for every version of the article,” but the read more tags you insert into posts on the posts page will appear on the all archives pages that include those posts as well: author, category, tag, date (annual, monthly, daily). etc. archives.
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