For long posts, you might want to create an expandable post summary, that is, having your post's intro or summary in your blogger homepage with a link to the full content usually marked as Read More.
This has been a long requested feature in Blogger, with a lot of tutorials written all over the Internet, but most of which involves hacking/modifying the blogger template, and certainly not all of us are capable or confident enough of doing.
What most of blogger users did not realized is that this feature is already available in blogger and fully supported in most available/standard templates. If you are using a template offered by blogger, then you have nothing to worry about this feature not being supported, but if you are using a template from other site, and you have to technical knowledge on how to check the template for this feature, then you could just ask the site admin or developer of the template.
There are two methods of adding the Read More option to your Blogger post: (1) Using the New Editor and (2) Inserting an HTML tag.
Using the New Blogger Editor to Create an Expandable Post Summary
1. Login to your blogger account
2. Activate the New Blogger Editor
- In order to activate the New/Updated Blogger Editor, go to your site Settings
- Inside the Basic Options, scroll down to Global Settings
- Under "Select post editor", select "Updated Editor"
- Then click Save Settings
3. Create your post and add the contents
4. Decide where in the post you want to create the Read More link, and place your cursor in that position
5. Once your mouse cursor is placed, simply click the Insert Jump Break toolbar icon. (The one with the small red cicle in the figure below)
Clicking on the Insert Jump Break toolbar icon will produce the gray bar/dotted line in your post, indicating the location of the Read More link. You can drag this bar to reposition the Read more link in your post.
6. When you publish your post, you will notice that the Read More link is placed where you set the jump break.
Inserting an HTML Tag to create an Expandable Post Summary
If you are not using the New Editor, you can still have the Expandable Post Summary.
1. Login to your blogger account
2. Create your post and add contents
3. Enter Edit HTML mode
4. Decide where you want the break to appear
5. Insert <!-- more --> in the location you have selected
6. When you publish your post, you will notice that the Read More link is placed where you put the "<!-- more -->" tag.
Changing Read More Text to Something Else
If you want to change the text "Read More", say "Read the rest of this Entry", etc., you can do so by:
1. Login to your blogger account
2. Click on Layout
3. Click Edit on your Blog Posts page element
4. In the Configure Blog Posts window, change the text in Post Page Link Text into something that you like.
That's all! I hope this post helps.
