By default WordPress displays your post in all it’s entirety on the frontpage. Some of you may not find this appealing since it causes your reader to have to scroll all the way down on your front page to view other posts. By setting a cut off point you allow an excerpt of your post to be displayed giving the reader a choice to click through to view the entire post. This also allows your reader to view more of your posts which they might interest them as well.

The method for inserting a cut off point on your post is by inserting the <!––more––> tag. You can insert the tag manually or use the More button found on your editor. You can insert this tag anywhere on your post which creates a (more…) link which cuts off the rest of the post and links to the actual post page.

How to Customize the “(more…)” link

You can actually customize the more link to make it more descriptive such as (Read More…) or (Continue Reading…).

The easiest way to do this is to include your descriptive message in the more tag. So to customize your more link to (Read More…), your more tag would look like this:

<!––more Read More––>

To display as (Continue Reading…), your more tag would look like this:

<!––more Continue Reading––>