With WordPress, you have a lot of flexibility on how your site looks. And as you work with WordPress, you learn different ways to customize your website so that it presents to your audience in the best way. Well, in this video below I demonstrates what the ‘More Tag’ is and how you would use it on your blog page (or home page) to shorten long blog posts and put in a “continue reading” link or a “Read More” link to read the rest of the post.
This improves the functionality of your site so that your visitors can see more of your articles on the homepage. This technique only works for blog posts, it does not work for pages. This makes the homepage of your blog more readable because you can break up long blog posts into 2 parts by adding the ‘Read More’ link. WordPress does this as part of the standard WordPress software. You do not need to add a plugin for this.
The Video (Length 6 min 22 sec) explains it the best, so just watch this video as I demonstrate what the ‘More Tag’ is and how you would use it on your homepage/category pages to shorten long blog posts.
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Great Tip! It’s these little, fun things that really make You look professional!
Hope Your class is going well!
Thanks for the tip!
Doug,
yes you can keep adding more and more fun things to wordpress!
I’ve been watching your video’s and posts with all the nest tips and I really wanted to take the training but it was a little outside my budget right now. Big disappointment
My question is do have any books on Word Press that you can recommend?
Thank You for a reply.
Bill
Bill, for beginners I recommend ‘Building a WordPress Blog People want to Read’ by McNulty
I have an Itheme theme and have a blog. Can I put a widget in the side bar to link to my post home page or do I have to put that in the menu (which I don’t want to do). I have “Recent Posts” in the sidebar but am think I might add the Post homepage… then I would need to use the “Read more” link.
http://www.casadekathy.com
My site just went live! I am so excited.
Kathy
PS I am using Google Analytics – do you know how to eliminate visist from em to my reports?
Hi Kathy,
Your site and your guest house both look very inviting
and professional.
I’m pretty new to online business but am always trying to learn and offer useful feedback as well.
Just wondered what you were doing to get traffic to your site and what you’ve found has worked best for you?
If it’s brand new, what “traffic plans” are you going to focus on?
Wishing you success,
Robin
Hi Robin:
Thanks for the positive feedback. I had professional help on the header/logo but I did a lot myself. I have two paid ads on http://www.vieques-island.com and http://www.enchanted-isle.com. These sites drive the majority of the traffic to my site. A large percent come from search engines because about half of my guests find me on Trip Advisor and then have to search for my web site. Yesterday I just paid for a listing on Trip Advisor so that there will be a direct link to my web site! This should make a big difference.
Kathy,
you can put links in your sidebars to go anywhere you want!
This is the kind of coaching I do with people in my 8 module course. The current class is closed, but I will be teaching it again in the Fall.
We cover Google Analytics in the program as well
Thanks Christina, Simple and easy. I can’t believe the solution was right on the tool bar.
Phyllis,
Yes, WordPress has a lot of depth and features that you don’t always notice at first.
Hi Christina!
Thanks for sharing this. It’s simple and easy, don’t need to be a techie person to figure this out. I am so in love with WordPress, it makes customizing easy and fun. There a lot of themes I like but I would like to make my own sometime 🙂
Christina, Great tip. What tool do you use to record the screen for your video?
Cheif,
I use camtasia for screen recordings
thank you for the info. Great stuff.