How do shorten posts and add a link to “read the full article”

  • I want to cut the posts in my blog down by adding a link to “read the full article”

    My problem is this… I don’t want to use the “More” button in my post because I want to include pictures after where the more tag exists within the post.
    This is the format I want to use on the main page:
    -Summary of article.
    -Link at the end of the article to full article.
    -Pictures and other information (after the more link).

    Is this clear or confusing? I can try to explain again if this doesn’t make sense.
    my site is sandwichreport*com

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  • There are about 4 options to summarize posts. The “more” tag, the excerpt, custom excerpt and an excerpt plugin. The problem with all of them is, once they reach the number or words or tag that defines the summary boundary nothing after will be display(ie: your images). Complicating things further, WordPress strips out tags and images from excerpts.

    There may be others ways to do this but the only thing that’s coming to mind is to use one of the above methods for getting the text summary and then sticking the images you want to display with summaries in a custom field.

    You can then display the text summary with the more tag or some other method and then display the images saved in a custom field.

    Thread Starter collegekid19

    (@collegekid19)

    Alright…

    Is there possibly an easier way to do this?

    I think its an important thing to be able to do and I would really appreciate it if someone could think of a way to do it that doesn’t involve too much heavy coding every time I want to make a post.

    Thread Starter collegekid19

    (@collegekid19)

    Besides how do I even add a picture to a custom field?

    Thread Starter collegekid19

    (@collegekid19)

    HELLLOOOOOOOO WORDPRESS COMMUNITY. I THINK THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE THAT DESERVES SOME ATTENTION.

    Does anyone know how to summarize an article and still place pictures and other information after the link (within the main post) to the full article?
    (see description above).

    I think this is a feature that would improve functionality tremendously.

    Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

    Most folks use the search instead of reaching for the caps-lock key.

    Have a look at Customizing_the_Read_More.

    I’m not sure why you don’t just click the “more” link in your editor. Seems like it would do what you’re asking with no fuss or muss.

    Thread Starter collegekid19

    (@collegekid19)

    Hey Han,
    Had to reach for the caps lock this time. No one was coming to the rescue.

    I tried clicking the “more” link in the editor but the problem is this:

    As soon as I click the more button everything that appears after the line in the post is not displayed on my blog’s front page; instead it is sent to the individual article page. What I need to do is insert the more link and then include a few pictures and bit of text after that “more” line on the front page. I still want the second half of the article to appear on its dedicated page, but the pictures and captions need to be on the front page and on the article page.

    Thanks for the help!

    Thread Starter collegekid19

    (@collegekid19)

    IMPORTANT ISSUE STILL UNRESOLVED!

    The article that han put in his reply: Customizing_The_Read_More

    Does not address the issue that I am having.

    Please describe to me how I can do what I’m trying to do

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