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CHAPTER 17 CUSTOMIZING YOUR BLOG S LAYOUT 475 Teasers and the More Tag for Lengthy Articles If you are writing lengthy articles on your blog, they tend to overpower the front page of your blog. While an article is new enough to still be on the front page, its length will push all the other articles a long way out of the visitors sight. For example, I added a 700-word article as the newest post on my sample blog. This meant that a visitor would need to scroll down through four screens before the next story was visible. If you had several such articles on your front page, it could quickly become a dozen or more screens long. Having a home page of that length is a big turnoff to visitors. They feel overwhelmed by the amount of text presented and are likely to go elsewhere. WordPress has a couple of mechanisms to deal with this. The first is a special tag you use in your post that allows you to present the first part of your article as a teaser. The rest of the article is then available by clicking on a more link. To enable this feature, simply add the special tag to your post at an appropriate point in the text the end of the first paragraph might be a good place. Figure 17-13 shows the special tag in place while editing an article. Figure 17-13. Special more tag inserted into an article Note that although the tag looks like an HTML comment, it isn t. Specifically, it does not contain any spaces, which a normal HTML comment tag does include. If the tag is not exactly like this, WordPress will ignore it. To be sure to get it right, you should use the more quicktag button above the post editor (see Chapter 14 for details on the quicktag buttons). Adding the tag to your post changes the way WordPress presents the post on the front page of your blog. WordPress will display your article up to the teaser tag. It will then
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