More tag is a nice feature in wordpress blogs. Many bloggers not interested in showing full posts in home page but showing only summary of the posts.
To enable this option, wordpress is having an option to include <!–more–> tag in default. If you include this tag in code view of the post, then rest of the post will get disappear. And the content before the more tag will appear with “Read More” link at the end. Read more link will take you to the perma link of that post.
Not interest with “Read More” text? Want to change something you want like “Continue Reading”? Follow the four simple steps to implement.
1) Download and open index.php of you theme.
2) Search for <?php the_content(__(‘Read more’));?>
3) Replace that with <?php the_content(__(‘<span class=”moretag”>Your text here</span>’));?>
4) Apply whatever style you want. I have included “moretag” class.
5) Save it and upload.
The read more text has been optimized now! Do you feel lazy in including more tag for all posts?
There are so many plugins exists for including more tag automatically into every posts. In the admin panel of these plugins, we have the set the limitations to include more tag. It may be 100 words or 500 letters (as you want). In some cases you won’t be feel convenient with this plugins.
So it’s better to use it manually in all posts. It’s just a single click in post editor. See the simple three steps in below image.
I wants to know whether it is advisable to use tag cloud in the website.. i am asking in the sense. instead of putting recent post at first shall we can make tag cloud to crawl first by bots before the recent post??