Have you ever visit a blog index and you need to scroll over and over just to get to see the title of the second most recent post on the blog? It's depressing isn't it? Most of the time you arrive on a blog you wanna take a recap of the newest posts the author has made and you want it quick. It's even more crucial when it's your first time visit. You don't want to make your potential visitor to go away without seeing the "whole blog". It's the law of the first impression to me.

So how do we make the readers check on the blog better? By cutting those long posts into pieces so the they can pick on the post they'd like to read on. It's an old trick that news sites already doing it for ages. See what I mean?

Let's go to the details now...

1. Open your template --> edit HTML
2. Check on "expand widget template"
3. Find this line:

Have you ever visit a blog index and you need to scroll over and over just to get to see the title of the second most recent post on the blog? It's depressing isn't it? Most of the time you arrive on a blog you wanna take a recap of the newest posts the author has made and you want it quick. It's even more crucial when it's your first time visit. You don't want to make your potential visitor to go away without seeing the "whole blog". It's the law of the first impression to me.

So how do we make the readers check on the blog better? By cutting those long posts into pieces so the they can pick on the post they'd like to read on. It's an old trick that news sites already doing it for ages. See what I mean?

Let's go to the details now...

1. Open your template --> edit HTML
2. Check on "expand widget template"
3. Find this line:

4. Place the next code under it:

5. Find this code under it:

6. Between

and

Put this code:

Read More......




7. So it will look like this ( the blue one is the extra code):

Read More......

Note that you can change the words “Read More” with anything else, like “ Continue reading”

8. Go to SETTINGS, choose FORMATTING. Fill this code on the box of the POST TEMPLATE menu:








Don’t forget to save .

9. How to use it
When you write a new post choose EDIT HTML. This code will appear automatically. This is because we did step number 8.






Place the part of the post that you want to hide between and . You can make the first two paragraph to appear on the front and make the rest is hidden.

If you want to cut your older post that still appearing as a whole on the front page just do step 9 on the post.

Note that you don’t have to edit all your previous post because it is useless. This is only has effect on the front page so why bother about those old posts that already got buried

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