How to Add Read More to Your Blog's Posts

Adding Read More to your Blogger's blog is not very hard to do. It only requires you to follow some simple steps and spend some time to copy and paste codes to your blog's template.

I found that adding "Read more..." function to our Blogger's blog posts is an effective way to make our blog looks more tidy and neat. Personally, I do not like a blog or site that have very long list of posts and I need to scroll down a lot of find the posts I want to read. So, by adding a "Read more..." function to our blog, we will shorten our blog posts and give a better reading experience for our blog readers.

So, please read on to learn how to implement "Read more..." function on your blog. I have make it short and simple for you to follow.

Please follow very carefully the steps describe below. You must do it step-by-step to make sure everything works properly. Do not skip the steps.

Step-by-step Guide to Implement "Read more..." on your blog:
1. Login to your Blogger.com account, then go to "Layout">>"Edit HTML".
2. Now, please select the "Expand Widget Template" before doing anything. Then, find for in HTML code.

3. Copy and Paste the code below after .=

4. Now, look for the in the HTML code. Copy and paste the code below after .

Read More...

5. Now, Save your template.

6. Go to "Setting">>"Formatting". Then, scroll down to the lowest part of the page and you will find the "Post Template".

Note: "Post Template" is the place where you can place codes or words so that it will always appear when you create new posts.

Copy and paste the code below into "Post Template".

After you pasted the codes, your "Post Template" will look like the picture below:

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7. Now, click on "Save Settings".

8. Now, you can go to "Posting" to create a new post. On the new post page, you will see the page below:


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***Remember: Type part of your post before the and then type the rest of your post between the and .

Then, click on "Publish" and all your new post will look like the picture below:


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Now, you will have "Read More..." function for all your blog's posts now.

I hope my step-by-step guide above will be helpful. You might want to read about "How eblog templates implement the Read More function". Enjoy the new feature.