Compressing your blog post content

 

The “More-Tag”

Being a pretty new entrant t blogging arena, I have been looking for a feature that can condense the blog entry. My blog posts are pretty long as you can see. Was glad to find out that WordPress itself offers a very easy way out  – The “more-tag”. With this feature you can make a portion of your post appear on the main page and rest can be expanded by clicking a button. There is also an option called “Excerpts” where you can display a gist of your blog entry. Found the more-tag very useful and wanted to share it with fellow bloggers.

How to use:

1) Go to Posts -> Add New in your dashboard to create a new blog entry (this does not work with Pages).

You can find the More Tag button in the first row of the visual editor toolbar or by pressing Alt+Shift+T:

2) Begin writing your post. When you decide that you want to cut it off, insert the More tag to split the post (mark where the excerpt officially ends). You will see the More Tag as such in the visual editor:

3) Finish writing your post.

4) Publish the post and view the front page of your blog. You should see your post effectively split using the More Tag. Note that the more tag is not displayed in post previews, since previews display posts in entirety, but the more tag will appear once the post has been published.

Click on the link, and you will be taken to the post in its full form.

Source: http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/