{"id":1058,"date":"2006-03-21T21:17:38","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T15:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/create-expandable-post-summaries-in-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2020-05-24T09:49:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:19:03","slug":"create-expandable-post-summaries-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/create-expandable-post-summaries-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Expandable Post Summaries in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A frequent question I was asked by my readers was how I created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/10\/blogger-expandable-post-summaries\/\">Expandable post summaries in Blogger<\/a>. It basically means a small introductory part of the post on the main index page of the blog, followed by &#8220;Read more&#8221; which leads to the main full post page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WordPress has a &#8220;more&#8221; tag<\/strong>, which lets you easily show only a limited part of the post on the index page followed by a more&#8230; link which leads to the full post. <em>But what if you wanted this process done automatically in all posts on the main index page, categories and archives?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>I found this cool combination of WordPress plugins.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wordpress\/evermore-wordpress-plugin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Evermore<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 Automatically display a short preview of your posts on the home page and other multiple-post pages, along with a link to the full post.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wordpress\/less-wordpress-plugin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Less<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; \u00a0Change the (more&#8230;) link so it jumps to the full post, not just the part after the link.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And you have a unique combination of shortened posts. If you want a more powerful plugin try <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/post-teaser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Post Teaser<\/a> which can configure the number of words to include, and add an estimated reading time and a word and image count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frequent question I was asked by my readers was how I created Expandable post summaries in Blogger. It basically&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}