You’ll have to get that theme to implement it. You can use the Insert More tag (Alt+Shift+T) in the wordpress post editor.
Or use this tag: <!–more–>
Hope it helps!
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jazzi
(@jazzi)
Thanks for the response trixoo. However, what you have mentioned simply inserts a “read more” link which I have been able to do. What I am aiming to implement is to place a thumbnail based on an image from the post, to the left of the “read more” text.
I have been able to accomplish this (somewhat) by using the “Post Thumbnail Images” images feature (new to WP 2.9+) and the get_the_content() WP function along with the PHP strip_tags() function.
strip_tags(get_the_content(...), 'allowed tags minus <img>')
This prevents the first image from the post from being displayed in the teaser but does not affect the thumbnail.
You could try custom fields
Using Custom Fields is key. If you try to use an image and resize server side to use as a thumb is a lot of unnecessary and repetitive tasks for your server. If my site is a good example I can help you out…
My homepage has a blog feed with thumbs of each post – http://thenateums.com
My archives use thumbs also from each post – http://thenateums.com/category/blog/
And each post then has photos or images that I had screenshot & cropped/resized to use as thumbs. Requires a little leg work with each post but is worth it in the end.
(My blog is a work in progress today, I was having some validation errors and in fixing that it is giving me a white edge below each image currently)
I could achieve this using ‘Thumbnail For Excerpts’ plugin but then my other plugin ‘post teaser’ stops working which means I lose the justified alignment and the ‘read more..’ link at the end of the excerpt.
Use <!–more–><!–noteaser–> like so:
<img align=”left” src=”small.jpg” alt=”” width=”100″ height=”100″ />
Blah Blah Blah
<!–more–><!–noteaser–>