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This worked:

https://www.techzoomin.com/wordpress-login-issueswp-admin-showing-404-error-page/

chmodded my wp directories to 755.

Sticking with Jetpack 1.1.3 for now.

Manually installed the last working version of Jetpack (1.1.3) and still no go. I’m just getting 404s whenever I try to access anything in the admin area.

And moving/removing the plugin folder doesn’t fix it.

Seems like some setting somewhere was changed.

Any ideas?

Wooliet, thank you for your reply and for investigating the conflict between more-link-modifying plugins and Read More Right Here.

Greatly appreciated!

I’m trying to understand how your code example will work. If I add this to the functions.php file of my theme, will I be able to use RMRH with one of the plugins mentioned in this thread? Or should I hold off till RMRH is updated?

Thanks again.

The score only shows if you’re logged in as admin. Log out and you should just see the title.

Thanks, directorysieve. I’m just doing as you suggested and manually adding the readmore tag to posts as they get older.

Love the graphic design, but–please, not Comic Sans! Anything but Comic Sans!

Great design. I love the clean, simple look. Very readable.

As for what you could add to the footer, it seems that you don’t have a list of categories or recent posts anywhere, so those two might be good candidates. You might also toss in a widget with recent comments.

I notice that overall, your blog navigation is bottom-heavy–your tags are at the bottom of the page, and when I’m on a single post page, there’s no easy way to navigate through your blog. You also don’t link to category listings except from each post’s own categories. So if I want to browse your blog topically rather than chronologically, it’s somewhat awkward.

Hope this helps. Looks great, just needs a little tweaking to make it more easily navigable.

Anyone know of a plugin that automatically uses the “read more” link for everything except the first post on the blog home page?

Oh, and as for the social media bookmarks–my content is only interesting to a certain niche, and I don’t want to clutter up my blog with social bookmarking links that will rarely get used. I prefer to build my audience the old-school way, by just linking to others and being an active commenter.

Am considering a “tweet this” plugin at some point, though.

@griffinjt – Awesome, thank you! I’m a zombie lover too–I’m writing a novel about them. ??

@directorysieve – Yep, custom theme, based on the column layout of the Inverted Headline theme. I completely gutted it, redid the CSS, widgetized the footer, etc.

I’m debating whether to use “read more” links on every long post. So far, I’m just using them on the short stories I post; normal blog posts show in full. It does feel like the front page is too long, though.

That’s brilliant. I may take you up on that suggestion. ??

Yep, good advice. I run WP.com Stats on all of my blogs. Planning to use Google XML Sitemaps soon too.

I’m trying to be SEO-friendly without being too obnoxious about it. Since I’m not advertising or selling any products (yet), I’m not desperate to pull in readers. I’d prefer to gradually cultivate a readership that has high interest in my topic (reading/writing fiction). I advertise by posting quality comments on forums and blogs of similar topic. As the content continues to build, I don’t anticipate any problems reaching a respectable position in search engines.

(I ran another topic-oriented blog before this at my root domain, and this strategy worked well.)

By the way, I’d be happy to take a look at your blog. I don’t know if you’re seeking feedback or not, but since you’ve been so helpful, I’d be pleased to return the favor.

Rex, thanks very much for your feedback.

I changed all external links to open in a new window, as well as revised the description of the blog and included it in the title of each page for keyword purposes.

I’ll definitely consider the black bar issue; the style isn’t final yet.

Thanks again for your helpful suggestions!

Same problem here.