How do you make a blogspot post direct to a site when clicked on?

Discussion in 'Blogging' started by YmT590, Jan 22, 2012.

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    I publish short articles on my blogspot blog and recently I signed up to a article submitting site to post articles on that. So i would like to have my blogspot post to feature an excerpt from my article and when a person clicks on the title, it will direct them to the article site. Is it possible to do that? let me know what I have to do to get it to work.

    Thanks,
    ymt590
     
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    YmT590 Greenhorn

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    thanks for replying, that didnt help much although it did show me how to show an excerpt from my article. but how about redirecting an individual post to a site? i can redirect my whole blog to another site but i want to know first if its possible to do it for an individual post.
     
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    You can either place your own "read more" link after the excerpt and link it to where ever you want. Or you can redirect each post URL by altering your .htaccess:

    or by using a redirection plug in. You have to look at a few to see which has what you want.
     
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    that have to be done manually on article directories, it is not like it will be done automatically.

    Like put some article part and read more on your website as hmansfield said.
     
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    hmansfield, the .htaccess thing is not supported for blogger and im not using wordpress because its used for that. as for the "read more" option, how do i place a link in it somehow so when its clicked it redirects to the site?
     
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    Just use a regular old anchor text:
    <a href="http://whateverlink.com">read more</a>
    HTML:
     
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    YmT590 Greenhorn

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    ok that looks good but the thing is, i have a custom template and whenever i post an article (short or long) it automatically shows a "read more" in there. is there a way to remove it?

    thanks for helping me out.
     
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    I don't know too much about Blogger. If that were wordpress I'd edit the template files to remove it.
    I don't understnd why you are going through the trouble of changing your core functions just to put in a link that can go anywhere?
    Is there some reason that you can't just use a normal link?
     
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    i can put a link but im trying to make my blog have news headlines, which is probably something different than what i asked, but they are all shown as a list and people would get redirected when they click the headline. i cant find a template like that so i thought of adding an excerpt and link it to the article site, but its alright. i think i got it now and ill see how things turn out. thanks for replying and helping out.
     
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    AH! I see. Like a headline aggregator.
    Sorry I can't be more help. I'm not that versed in Blogger specifically.
     
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