Wordpress Long Post Help !!

Hello All,

I have a wordpress post that is running really long. Its too much text to scroll in the blog. I want a way in which we can have a small more link or some method in the post such that on clicking on the link it would take you to the post page. I had remembered clicking on a button in the wordpress editor thereby inserting a more link. Not to sure where to find out.

Or is there a better way to handle a lenghty post situation in the blog when you have more then one post in the same page i.e. when your post is present under a category.

The probelm is with "Online Trading, Demat Account and Brokerage Firms »"

of http://www.iwebie.com

Regards,
Hemanth

 

The "More Link" button is still there It's next to the "Unlink" button.

 

Great I searched each button in my Editor using the tooltips and finally found the More Button.. Whew!!! The order was completely changed as I had installed the Tiny MCE Plugin and had added a lot of buttons. Thanks mate... It worked. But two small doubts here;

1. When I hover over the "Read the rest" link, I see the following link in the status bar

http://www.iwebie.com/online-trading-demat-account-and-brokerage-firms#more-546

whats this #more-546. Should the url not be just

http://www.iwebie.com/online-trading-demat-account-and-brokerage-firms

2. Also is there a way, if I can make the text Read the rest bold in the post.

Regards,
Hemanth

 

Hi,

Not sure about your first question. I'll let someone else answer that. About your second one, I don't know if there's a better way but I changed it manually.

In your theme's index.php, find <?php the_content('Read the rest &raquo;'); ?> (or similar) and change it for <?php the_content('<strong>Read the rest</strong> &raquo;'); ?>

 

You can edit your template and change link read rest with link to the post itself, I dont remember exactly how it looks like but you can figure out easily as link to the whole post is usually given in title hence look there i.e start of post.

 

Thanks Ricky. I am ok with having the "Read More" link. Its just that I wanted it to stand out from the rest of the text to let the visitor easily know that there is more to the post.

 

As for your first question with the link having the #more-546, it's just an anchor so when someone reads the excerpt on the front page and then clicks on your "more" link then it automatically scrolls down to the place where the excerpt ended rather than starting from the top of the post.

You can edit this somewhere either in Wordpress backend or my modifying some files. Shouldn't be too hard.