MORE INSIDE, PLZ

May 1, 2008 8:17 PM

How can I make blogspot have [more inside]?

Does blogspot allow you to create an "extended" version of your post, like MT and others? I can't figure out how to do this. I have some ass-long posts coming up and I'd rather not lay waste to the whole front page.

What do I have to do to be able to do a "more after the jump"?

Perhaps I could have searched better to find out. I'm still riding on the excuse that I just had my wisdom teeth out, I'm cranky, sore, and dizzy on painkillers.

Thanks, gang.

posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] to computers & internet (6 comments total)

when i was using blogspot for my blog I found really hard to split posts and add the more after the jump. I ended up using this way of doing it. Some times it worked and sometimes it didn't but it was the closest I could come to getting it right. Oh and I hosted the blog on my own domain so some of the settings were weird, I don't know if its different if your hosted on blogspot or not.
posted by lilkeith07 at 8:27 PM on May 1

Here's another hack for splitting posts - not sure if it works with the new blogger stuff though. I used to use something similar - changing something in the template and then using the span id tags described in that post to split posts. I ended up not using it because it added a "read more" link to every post, even if I didn't split them, and I found it annoying. The link above sounds like it only adds the link to the specific posts you've split though.
posted by miss cee at 8:32 PM on May 1

I asked the guy at this blog and he said he does it like this. I have not gotten around to trying it myself.
posted by LarryC at 9:26 PM on May 1

lilkeith07's didn't work for me. miss cee, yours did but I am getting those annoying "read more" links too, and don't know how to root them out.
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 9:47 PM on May 1

Actually, miss cee, if you do it that way and then search the HTML on your page for "Read More..." you can delete that bit of text and kill the problem.
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 9:52 PM on May 1

direct from blogger.

it's what I use on this site I run and it gets the job done fine, esp with New Blogger.
posted by heeeraldo at 10:49 PM on May 1 [1 favorite]