Read More tag – Did I miss something?
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I am having some trouble with understanding how to use the “Read More” tag. Yes, I do know how to get to it, in the editor. However, I seem to be missing something. I recently created a page for a short article called “The Crossing”. I, first added the Read More tag right after the 2nd paragraph. Saved my work and checked the main page. Nada. My next step was to do a copy & past of the first two paragraphs and place them on the front and applied “Read More..”
It seems “Read More” is suitable when the whole post is on the Front page and the Archives. My goal was to show only the first two paragraphs on the Front page and have the readers go to a page with the whole story. My workaround was to ad a hyperlink for the visitor to click on.
Did I miss something? The updated page is up, if any care to look.
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If you are using the “preview” to look at the post, then what you are seeing is the single-post page rather than the front page of the blog.
On your latest post, The Crossing, I see the read more tag.
One note for you. Always make the more tag as if it were its own paragraph. Do not place it within a paragraph, blockquote, ordered or unordered list, and never within a block of text that is formatted (bold, italic, etc.). That effectively hides the closing tags for those things on the front page and will cause errors.
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So, I noticed when experimenting with it. Yike, it looked visually confusing. Didn’t know about the problems with tags.
To think I once thought time was wasted in learning basic HTML. NOT! If you looked at the codes on the front page, there isn’t a “read more” tag. I used an old HTML trick and created a hyperlink.
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“If you looked at the codes on the front page, there isn’t a “read more” tag.”
I use the same theme and the read more tag in every post. As TSP says I never use it inside a blockquote, ordered or unordered list. I only use it where a natural paragraph break occurs. Although the “break” is nor visible in “preview” it’s there after I publish a post “read more”.
I just looked at your blog and I see the same “read more” break I see on my own posts.
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Thanks for the help, Time & TSP.
Now, I am off to the next challenge. Getting the right tags for my site.
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Now that’s a subject I could devote a lot of tume to. I’m a former research and reference librarian. I’m astonished every day by the lack of care and attention bloggers pay to
selecting appropriate keywords for inclusion in an effective tagline; and selecting appropriate keywords for categories and tags. In a web 2 environment blogs that lack “branding” will be lost in the haystacks. -
I believe it. I took a good look at a couple of your articles. Why am I not surprised to learn that you were a research and reference librarian?
I just added a bunch of tags that are related both to the site, in general and to the story I posted. In fact, I added lake, creek, walking and stream as it was mentioned in the story.
I may be overdoing the tags. For now, I’ll give it a break and do some reading.
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We are now off-topic. :(
Here’s an easy way to understand the difference between categories and tags. Pick up a text book and open it. Suppose the title page entries for sections and chapters are equivalent to categories. Now flip to the very back of the book to the index. Suppose that tags are equivalent to index entries in a book. Here’s the link to the support documentation entry http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/
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