Comments on: Making WP’s Read More quicktag accessible

By: Gary Miller

Gary Miller — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:43:54 +0000

James, tried that but I can’t make head nor tail of if! Thanks for trying though…still looking.

By: James

James — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:29:52 +0000

Hi Gary, Mike Cherim has a post about excerpts on his SeaBeast blog. I wonder if the technique that he describes there is therefore already built into the theme?

By: Gary Miller

Gary Miller — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:13:50 +0000

@James:Great post! What I can’t figure out is this: I’m using the Seabeast theme. If I have a short post, I don’t want a ‘More’ link, but it gives one anyway. I’m going crazy trying to figure it out!

By: James

James — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:56:45 +0000

Good points Ben – I’m definitely leaning towards the second technique that I mention, where you can customise the link text completely rather than leaving it to be generated automatically. That way I can be sure of avoiding repetitive text.

By: Ben Millard

Ben Millard — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:19:35 +0000

On Calthorpe Park School we don't use Wordpress but we have a similar IA/UI scenario. On the homepage, we simply remove "Read more" type links because the heading is a super-visible link already. Your technique here can also be improved by avoiding repetitive text at the start of such links. Make "Read more [about]" into normal text and so only the "[article name]" part is the link. This way, identical destinations get identical link text without a repetitive phrase at the start. (I'm assuming these comments allow HTML...and that I typed it correctly!)