Title: Post Plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Post Plugin

 *  [zen-cowboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zen-cowboy/)
 * (@zen-cowboy)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-plugin/)
 * I am looking for a plugin that would insert a “Read More” link at the end of 
   a paragraph so that only a fixed amount is displayed with the reader opting to
   click the “Read More” link to see the full content.
 * Any thoughts?

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-plugin/#post-320085)
 * What you’re looking for is built into WordPress. Add this to your content where
   you want the “read more” link to appear:
 * `<!--more-->`
 * If using WP 1.5.x or WP 2.0 but with the non-WYSIWYG editor, click the “more”
   Quicktag to insert the above automatically. (In the WYSIWYG editor it’s the icon
   that looks like a page with a dotted line cutting through it.)
 *  [sfam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sfam/)
 * (@sfam)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-plugin/#post-320122)
 * Kafkaesqui, is it possible to use something like the <!–more–> comment for just
   the category pages? I want my posts on the main page to be full, but if someone
   selects a category page, I would like to cut it off early.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-plugin/#post-320123)
 * That’s again a built-in feature.
    What theme are you using? Normal theme have
   the_excerpt in archive view (file) – and when you see a category, that’s actually
   an “archive” of that category. Replace the_content template tag with the_excerpt
   in your archive.php file. More: [Template_Tags/the_excerpt](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt)
   and related links from there.
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-plugin/#post-320129)
 * sfam, there’s several ways you can go about this.
 * One option (as moshu points out) is to use [the_excerpt()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt)
   in a theme’s category.php or archive.php template while manually providing a “
   more” link (the permalink to the post) in the template’s code. Then use [the_content()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content)
   everywhere else. A limitation to this is you can’t use the ‘more’ tag in posts
   so you lose some control over where the break occurs, but this can be alleviated
   by providing the excerpt text to the post.
 * Another is to go into your theme’s index.php (or home.php, if it has one) and
   swap out the_content() template tag with something like:
 * `<?php
    echo apply_filters('the_content', $post->post_content); ?>
 * A little geeky, but what it does is display a post’s content–with built-in and
   plugin filters in operation, but bypasses certain features of the_content() tag,
   such as parsing ‘more’. It also slips over password protection, so if that’s 
   in use on your blog it would be a problem.
 * Finally, a few of the ‘auto-more’ plugins *could* be rewritten to work on only
   certain types of WP queries (i.e. category pages):
 * [http://www.thunderguy.com/semicolon/wordpress/evermore-wordpress-plugin/](http://www.thunderguy.com/semicolon/wordpress/evermore-wordpress-plugin/)
   
   [http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/PostTeaser](http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/PostTeaser)
 * The last suggestion is even more geeky…
 *  [sfam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sfam/)
 * (@sfam)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-plugin/#post-320330)
 * Hi Moshu, I’m using the Semiologic theme, but am using the [structured blogging](http://www.structuredblogging.org/)
   template (specifically the hReview one) for the actual blog entries. For some
   reason this doesn’t have an excerpt field. Would this be an easy think to take
   the excerpt field from the default template and load it into the structured blogging
   template?

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-plugin/#post-320330)
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