How to show ‘Read More’ Buttons on WordPress

Posted on 08. Aug, 2009 by Isaac Yassar in WordPress

wordpressDo you want to use ‘read more’ functionality on your WordPress powered blog?

‘Read more’ functionality is actually a default feature of WordPress (for own-domain publishing). All themes can show it. However, this tool is probably not familiar with new WordPress users.

A ‘read more’ button functions to show only an excerpt of your post on your main page / blog page. It makes that page shorter and more comprehensive. Readers can choose the post they want to read and clicking the button will show them a complete version of the particular post.

How to show a ‘read more’ button?

1. Go to WordPress dashboard
2. Write new post (or edit post)
3. Click ‘HTML‘ (on the left of ‘Visual’)
4. Click ‘more‘ (between ‘lookup’)

The ‘more’ will write a code of <!--more--> in the position of your typing cursor. A ‘read more’ button will appear on the exact location of the code. If you can’t easily find them, use your browser’s find tool (Ctrl + F in Mozilla Firefox). Alternatively, you can manually write the code where you want the button to appear.

Texts before the code will serve as an excerpt, which appear in your main / blog page. Texts after the code will only appear in the complete version of your post, not on the main / blog page.

This read more button will obviously make our homepage neat and short, one step closer to build a better blog.

Feel free to use the comment section if you have any question or comments :-)

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9 Responses to “How to show ‘Read More’ Buttons on WordPress”

  1. djupi

    08. Aug, 2009

    You can also add “Read more” button/link in visual mode, just click the 4th button from the right, or you can add it by key combination of “Alt+Shift+T” :D

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  2. Jim Hardin

    08. Aug, 2009

    Hey thanks for the tip! I have been looking at peoples blogs and wondering how they did. I have been looking around and couldn’t find it. I guess it was right under my nose the hole time

    Thanks again

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  3. Greg Ellison

    08. Aug, 2009

    I never knew that you can add the more button on your blog like that. Thanks for the tip Isaac. Greg Ellison

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  4. Isaac Yassar

    09. Aug, 2009

    You’re welcome Jim and Greg. I hope it will help you in your blogging.

    Thanks for the addition Djupi. There are so many buttons in the visual mode, I didn’t know if ‘read more’ feature is also there :-)

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  5. azharKL

    16. Dec, 2009

    crazy simply! haha
    you know what, i don’t know we can use that simple trick…
    anyway..thanks..

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  6. Kelvin

    31. Jan, 2010

    Thanks. I didn’t know it was so simple =)

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  7. Threza

    10. Feb, 2010

    I could find the more button but could not locate it after saving.

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