Posted: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 at 1:18 am. Filed in Customization, Features, WordPress, WordPress.com.
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! -->
August 2nd, 2006 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.
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:03 am
It’s cool!
August 2nd, 2006 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?
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:09 am
Wow, mad updates recently by you guys, I’m having trouble keeping up. Thanks alot for your hard work!
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:24 am
very nice facility. great work. so nice of you. thanks
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:35 am
great job !
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:39 am
Awesome move. Congratulations. We¿re expecting more in the future.
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:40 am
Innovative and handy!
August 2nd, 2006 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.
August 2nd, 2006 at 3:04 am
wow! great.. let me try to use it
August 2nd, 2006 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!
August 2nd, 2006 at 3:48 am
Great feature. Thanks
August 2nd, 2006 at 3:54 am
You guys are never stop make me happy !
August 2nd, 2006 at 3:59 am
Cool beans!
August 2nd, 2006 at 4:22 am
nice add!!! love it.
August 2nd, 2006 at 4:28 am
superb
August 2nd, 2006 at 4:29 am
Awesome! Thank you all for your hard work in keeping up WordPress and providing a great service!
August 2nd, 2006 at 4:48 am
Nice, this is great.
August 2nd, 2006 at 5:41 am
BEE YOU TEE FULL!! Thank you!
August 2nd, 2006 at 6:04 am
I’ve wondered about that. Allows us to be a bit more unique out here in the blogosphere. Thanks!
August 2nd, 2006 at 6:33 am
Its all the little things that count right! Great job guys, glad u added it!
August 2nd, 2006 at 7:12 am
Oh, yes, it works! Thank you very much guys!!
August 2nd, 2006 at 7:17 am
It’s great!!
I was waiting for this too.
Thank you very much again!!
August 2nd, 2006 at 7:27 am
A feature awaited for long! Great work
August 2nd, 2006 at 7:40 am
Finally!
August 2nd, 2006 at 8:19 am
That is very very good! Thanks a lot guys!
August 2nd, 2006 at 8:30 am
Thanks a bunch.
August 2nd, 2006 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 =)
August 2nd, 2006 at 8:47 am
Great !!!
The biggest element of success in WP is its ability to customize.
Continue Guys !?!
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:31 am
This is going to be a great thing for individuality for people’s sites. Thanks for the new feature!
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:45 am
Yeah! I was waiting for this, thankssss..
August 2nd, 2006 at 9:50 am
Excellent, thanks!
August 2nd, 2006 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!
August 2nd, 2006 at 10:29 am
Cool, very nice.
Looking forward to our own default personalise line for more in the options
August 2nd, 2006 at 10:44 am
Very good! Thanks again, guys!
August 2nd, 2006 at 10:53 am
very nice. good new facility. thanks a lot.
August 2nd, 2006 at 11:16 am
Another nice one. Journies after all opens ones mind to creativity!
August 2nd, 2006 at 11:30 am
Phew, good things come from losing one’s luggage eh?
August 2nd, 2006 at 11:51 am
Rock on!!
August 2nd, 2006 at 12:04 pm
You guys are the best
August 2nd, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Excellent news!
August 2nd, 2006 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.
August 2nd, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Good Feature that… and you deserve some applause for that. *Applause*
August 2nd, 2006 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!
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Fantastic!
August 2nd, 2006 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
August 2nd, 2006 at 3:52 pm
This is GREAT.
August 3rd, 2006 at 12:01 am
thankyou finally!!!!
August 3rd, 2006 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?
August 3rd, 2006 at 12:06 pm
This one’s great too!
August 3rd, 2006 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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August 4th, 2006 at 1:26 am
Sounds like a fun, nifty thing to do.
August 6th, 2006 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.
August 8th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Joost and vjp: Fixed the editor!
September 5th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
I loved this feature
September 6th, 2006 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…
November 16th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
great matt. now i can deal with long posts easily : )
March 13th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Great
March 19th, 2007 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!!!
April 16th, 2007 at 6:25 am
I was searching forever to find this!