But wait, there’s more!
Matt and I were waiting for Donncha to get through airport customs and discussing possible new features for WordPress yesterday. We decided it would be simple and worthwhile to let you customize the More… link for each post split by the <!--more--> tag. I wrote a patch, Mark Jaquith perfected it and now it’s live on WordPress.com and slated for WordPress 2.1.
Here’s how it works: put a space after <!--more, then the text, then --> like this:
<!--more But wait, there's more! -->
Posted: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 at 1:18 am. Filed in Customization, Features, WordPress, WordPress.com.
Aug 2nd at 1:24 am
You guys don’t know how long I’ve been waiting for this, oh wait, just did.
Now I no longer envy TextPattern.
Aug 2nd at 2:03 am
It’s cool!
Aug 2nd at 2:08 am
I gave up using the tags when I discovered that the feed readers did not search out the rest of the articles but simply stopped at the more tags.
I found this out in a every unpleasant way when I discovered my back-up disc for blog posts was corrupted. I had already deleted the posts from my blog. No problem I thought I just get them through either my bloglines account or through my feedblitz account. No cigar. When the feed readers met the more tag that was where they stopped.
Has this changed?
Aug 2nd at 2:09 am
Wow, mad updates recently by you guys, I’m having trouble keeping up. Thanks alot for your hard work!
Aug 2nd at 2:24 am
very nice facility. great work. so nice of you. thanks
Aug 2nd at 2:35 am
great job !
Aug 2nd at 2:39 am
Awesome move. Congratulations. We¿re expecting more in the future.
Aug 2nd at 2:40 am
Innovative and handy!
Aug 2nd at 2:47 am
I rather like my AJAX post expander link rather than Wait There’s more…
It’s sounds like you are begging the person to read more.
Aug 2nd at 3:04 am
wow! great.. let me try to use it
Aug 2nd at 3:28 am
Cool. Nice feature. This probably explains why the editor was working in wacky fashion for me today. Oh, well, I like it. But will we still have the bug that cuts off the feed, when using the tag? This is why I haven’t been using it much lately, but I’d like to.
Hey Andy, has Matt said anything about progress from the previous news (domain mapping)?
All of us are wondering what’s up, man! 8)
Aug 2nd at 3:48 am
Great feature. Thanks
Aug 2nd at 3:54 am
You guys are never stop make me happy !
Aug 2nd at 3:59 am
Cool beans!
Aug 2nd at 4:22 am
nice add!!! love it.
Aug 2nd at 4:28 am
superb
Aug 2nd at 4:29 am
Awesome! Thank you all for your hard work in keeping up WordPress and providing a great service!
Aug 2nd at 4:48 am
Nice, this is great.
Aug 2nd at 5:41 am
BEE YOU TEE FULL!! Thank you!
Aug 2nd at 6:04 am
I’ve wondered about that. Allows us to be a bit more unique out here in the blogosphere. Thanks!
Aug 2nd at 6:33 am
Its all the little things that count right! Great job guys, glad u added it!
Aug 2nd at 7:12 am
Oh, yes, it works! Thank you very much guys!!
Aug 2nd at 7:17 am
It’s great!!
I was waiting for this too.
Thank you very much again!!
Aug 2nd at 7:27 am
A feature awaited for long! Great work
Aug 2nd at 7:40 am
Finally!
Aug 2nd at 8:19 am
That is very very good! Thanks a lot guys!
Aug 2nd at 8:30 am
Thanks a bunch.
Aug 2nd at 8:42 am
I was just wondering about this couple days ago!
Thanks guys for making WordPress.com better everyday. It goes straight to our hearts =)
Aug 2nd at 8:47 am
Great !!!
The biggest element of success in WP is its ability to customize.
Continue Guys !?!
Aug 2nd at 9:31 am
This is going to be a great thing for individuality for people’s sites. Thanks for the new feature!
Aug 2nd at 9:45 am
Yeah! I was waiting for this, thankssss..
Aug 2nd at 9:50 am
Excellent, thanks!
Aug 2nd at 10:25 am
It works great!
The only thing is that, when i’m writing a post, change the ‘split post’ into custom words, the ‘split post’ tag itself disappears on my screen when i’m writing a post. I can only see it in the HTML source.
But, I really think this is great! Now I can tell everybody to read more in my own language!
Aug 2nd at 10:29 am
Cool, very nice.
Looking forward to our own default personalise line for more in the options
Aug 2nd at 10:44 am
Very good! Thanks again, guys!
Aug 2nd at 10:53 am
very nice. good new facility. thanks a lot.
Aug 2nd at 11:16 am
Another nice one. Journies after all opens ones mind to creativity!
Aug 2nd at 11:30 am
Phew, good things come from losing one’s luggage eh?
Aug 2nd at 11:51 am
Rock on!!
Aug 2nd at 12:04 pm
You guys are the best
Aug 2nd at 12:18 pm
Excellent news!
Aug 2nd at 1:05 pm
Is the MORE link working correctly with RSS feeds now?
It used to be left out in the feed reader, so there would be no indication there was more text to the article when reading it in RSS.
Aug 2nd at 1:54 pm
Good Feature that… and you deserve some applause for that. *Applause*
Aug 2nd at 2:11 pm
It’s great. I can’t wait to use it tomorrow for a new post. Are you guys ever going to do something where we can do jump links throughout a posting?
Thanks!
Aug 2nd at 2:40 pm
Fantastic!
Aug 2nd at 3:00 pm
that’s something i’ve wanted for a while.
well, that and being able to close the `<!–more –>` tag, and start another one later. LJ style
Aug 2nd at 3:52 pm
This is GREAT.
Aug 3rd at 12:01 am
thankyou finally!!!!
Aug 3rd at 7:19 am
Um…I have no idea what this is. From what I can infer though, I’m guessing that this is something that forces people to click onto your link to see the entire post.
I had no idea this existed. Are there more of these?
Aug 3rd at 12:06 pm
This one’s great too!
Aug 3rd at 3:56 pm
Love this feature! It was kind of hard work to change it in all my postings but I´m happier now that I know my readers will finally understand what is expected of them
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Aug 4th at 1:26 am
Sounds like a fun, nifty thing to do.
Aug 6th at 1:27 am
This feature is working well, and it shows up in the RSS feeds, unlike the plain more tag. However, it is annoying that it causes the more split to disappear from the screen of the Rich Text editor, like Joost said.
Aug 8th at 8:47 pm
Joost and vjp: Fixed the editor!
Sep 5th at 2:31 pm
I loved this feature
Sep 6th at 10:21 pm
works like a charm….but can you expand the text on the same page without taking the reader to a new link…i know there are patches available for it, but i’m using wordpress.com, the free service, any plans of rolling out ‘expand on same page’ option for wordpress…thanks…
Nov 16th at 7:13 pm
great matt. now i can deal with long posts easily : )
Mar 13th at 8:58 pm
Great
Mar 19th at 4:00 pm
I have a couple of questions.
1- Can we have the “Read more” feature in pages.
2- If so, can we have more than one per page?
(the reason I ask is that I want to have sub-titles and then body text, but I only want to show the sub-titles and once you click on more… than you can read the body text.)
Here is my site: http://whiteaisle.wordpress.com
This is the page I would like to do this with: http://whiteaisle.wordpress.com/reception-%C2%B0-reception/
thanks, in hopes i get an answer very soon!!!
Apr 16th at 6:25 am
I was searching forever to find this!