Expand Post With Read More Or Continue Reading In Blogger

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With little bit of modifications to your Blogger Beta template you can easily implement expandable post summaries in your blog main page. Expandable posts gives very professional and elegant look to your blog. You can hide most of the detailed content from main page and display them when the page of the post is opened.

If you observer my blog, voting widgets are displayed on my post links and not in my main page. Also, most of the images in my posts are shown only in the actual post links only. Moving bandwidth intensive content to posts’ pages loads your main page very fast.

Let us see the steps to be followed for modifying the template to implement this

1. Log in to your blogger account select Layout of the blog which you want to modify
2. Navigate through Template –> Edit HTML
3. Take backup of your template by clicking Download Full Template. This backup will help you if you want to revert to old template
4. Search for ]]> in your template HTML and paste the following piece of code in between ]]> and

<!-- Style to implement "Read more on this Article" link in all the posts (Start) --><br /><style><br /> <b:if cond="'data:blog.pageType"><br /> span.fullpost {display:inline;}<br /> <b:else/><br /> span.fullpost {display:none;}<br /> </b:if><br /></style><br /><!-- Style to implement "Read more on this Article" link in all the posts (End) -->

• Save your template and click on select Expand Widget Templates Search for in the template HTML and paste the following piece of code after

<!-- Code to show "Read more ..." Link (Begin) --><br /> <b:if cond="'data:blog.pageType"><br /> <span><br /><a href="'data:post.url'" style="'color:#0000FF;">Read more ...</a><br /> </span><br /> </b:if><br /> <!-- Code to show "Read more..." Link (End) -->

You can change the red text with any Text like “Continue reading..” “Read rest of this entry” “Read more” etc as per yours blogs content.
Post Modifications - The final piece that we need is a little bit of code in your actual post. Each post that you want to use this feature on will need this code

<span class="fullpost"><br /></span>

This part can actually go in the post template, if you don’t want to have to type it for each post. You’ll enter the summary text outside the span tags and the remainder inside, like so:

Beginning of post.<span class="fullpost"> here is the rest of it.</span>

Now, when a reader visits your blog, this post will appear like below: