Occasionally, when writing blogs, you may wish to limit the amount of text that is displayed to the website visitor so that the page does not look overly complicated with lots of information. This is where the Read More feature can be really handy.
6.6.1 What is the Read More feature?
This feature is provided to allow you to divide your text into an introductory paragraph and then "the rest". When viewed in the front end of the website, the website viewer would see only your introductory paragraph and a Read More button. Clicking this button will take the viewer to a page where the whole article can be viewed from top to bottom.
6.6.2 How do you add the Read More feature to an article?
This is very simple. When you're working on an article, underneath the article editor panel are a series of buttons, one of which is labelled Read More.
To use this button place your cursor at the end of the first paragraph of your article and then simply click the Read More button. When you do this, the editor will display a Read More placeholder for you which will look like this:
The remainder of your article text will sit underneath this placeholder.
You can only add one Read More to an article.
Once you have saved your article, when you view it in the front-end of the website the Read More button will be displayed underneath the first paragraph, allowing website visitors to read the rest of the article in a full-page.
If when you do the above, you find that on the front end of the website that the Read More feature doesn’t get displayed, contact us so that we can enable it for you on your website (on some websites, this feature is set as disabled by default).