The Extended Post for Blogspot

Recently I received an email from a fellow reader (I think) and he wanted to know how some users made a ‘read more’ link to their entry. If you’re using Wordpress (WP) or MovableType (MT) or any other stand-alone publishing engine, there normally is an Entry Body and Extended Entry section when typing a post.

WP and MT have built-in codes to generate the ‘read more’ link for you. However, for Blogspot users, they only have the Entry Body to put up their post and by default, the whole post is published on the homepage.

So I did some Googling and found helpful links to achieve the ‘read more’ link for Blogspot users.

The first method guided by Ogre’s Politics & Views, he explains the whole process from start to finish of achieving the ‘read more’ link.

I’m not going to go into detail about how do you do it because I think the author of Ogre’s View has done it well already. However, for those who know Blogger like the back of their hand, these are the codes that have to be inserted within your template.

.fullpost {display:none;}
.shortpost {display:inline;}

.fullpost {display:inline;}
.shortpost {display:none;}

Short Text Here
Read more…

Longer portion of post goes here.

*note: If you copy and paste the code, remember to remove the spaces like this .

You could either read his full process at Ogre’s Politics & Views or you could read the version that’s been contributed to Blogger, HERE.

Both of it is pretty much the same and I just noticed that Blogger users won’t get the exact same effect of how it is done in WP and MT. Well, I suppose that’s one of the limitations found when using Blogger.

Posted by Danny Foo on August 23, 2005 | Filed Under Website Lessons | Bookmark and Share |

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3 Responses to “The Extended Post for Blogspot”

  1. Response #1 by Giant Sotong on August 23rd, 2005

    I’m using something similar, just that there are more steps and style rules involved.

  2. Response #2 by dannyFoo on August 23rd, 2005

    Not a problem. :)
    Good luck.

  3. Response #3 by nicktay on August 23rd, 2005

    Thanks for the tip :)


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