Title: More link on posts doesn't work?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# More link on posts doesn't work?

 *  [Wootie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wootie/)
 * (@wootie)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-link-on-posts-doesnt-work/)
 * Derek – thanks a lot for the help with the formatting stuff earlier…
 * …but I just discovered another oddity that I can’t figure out. On my News page,
   set to be where posts go via the Customizer, the […] ‘more’ link isn’t active–
   can’t click on it to continue reading the post. Have to click the title of the
   post, which may not be intuitive for some people.
 * I also just tried using a 3rd-party utility to automatically insert a ‘More’ 
   tag after so many characters/words – and the tag it made was also inactive.
 * ? What am I missing?

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 *  Theme Author [Derek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chiroderek/)
 * (@chiroderek)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-link-on-posts-doesnt-work/#post-6195477)
 * The more tag won’t do anything on the blog index because the blog index is already
   set up to only show excerpts. Like this: [http://demo1.chirothemes.com/blog/](http://demo1.chirothemes.com/blog/)
 * So the more tag isn’t necessary. You can just publish your post without a more
   tag, and WordPress will automatically cut it off at 55 words for the excerpt 
   on the blog index.
 * However, if you want to specify the exact excerpt, you can. You do this from 
   the post editor. Go to the top and click the tab for “Screen Options” and you’ll
   see a check box called Excerpt. If you check that box, you’ll then see a new 
   text area for the Excerpt underneath the post editor. Whatever you put in that
   box will replace the WordPress generated excerpt.
 * Also, you should consider using featured images in the post editor. As you can
   see from the demo, it adds really nice thumbnails to excerpts on the blog index
   page.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-link-on-posts-doesnt-work/#post-6195477)
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