How Create Automatic Read More / Continue Reading In Blog

With this trick, you can choose to display an arbitrary amount of text from the beginning of each post, as a teaser for the whole thing. Then users who want to read the rest of the post can click a link to see the full text.
With this new Read More tips you don’t have to add code like:

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

In all of your post. Using this code you will have automatic Read More in your Blog
Follow the steps below for how to To Create Automatic Read More / Continue Reading In Blogger (Blogspot)

1. Login to your blogger account then choose Layout -> Edit HTML
2. Find code </head> (you can use Ctrl + F to find the code)
3.Copy and paste below code directly above </head>

<script type='text/javascript'>
var thumbnail_mode = "float" ;
summary_noimg = 250;
summary_img = 250;
img_thumb_height = 120;
img_thumb_width = 120;

</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[

/******************************************

Auto-readmore link script, version 2.0 (for blogspot)
(C)2008 by Anhvo
visit http://en.vietwebguide.com to get more cool hacks

********************************************/

function removeHtmlTag(strx,chop){
if(strx.indexOf("<")!=-1)
{
var s = strx.split("<");
for(var i=0;i<s.length;i++){
if(s[i].indexOf(">")!=-1){
s[i] = s[i].substring(s[i].indexOf(">")+1,s[i].length);
}
}
strx = s.join("");
}
chop = (chop < strx.length-1) ? chop : strx.length-2;
while(strx.charAt(chop-1)!=' ' && strx.indexOf(' ',chop)!=-1) chop++;
strx = strx.substring(0,chop-1);
return strx+'...';
}
function createSummaryAndThumb(pID){
var div = document.getElementById(pID);
var imgtag = "";
var img = div.getElementsByTagName("img");
var summ = summary_noimg;
if(img.length>=1) {
imgtag = '<span style="float:left; padding:0px 10px 5px 0px;"><img src="'+img[0].src+'" width="'+img_thumb_width+'px" height="'+img_thumb_height+'px"/></span>';
summ = summary_img;
}
var summary = imgtag + '<div>' + removeHtmlTag(div.innerHTML,summ) + '</div>';
div.innerHTML = summary;
}
//]]>
</script>


4. Save your template
5. In Edit HTML page tick mark "Expand widget template" then find this code below
<data:post.body/>

6. Delete code <data:post.body/> and change with below code

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<div expr:id='"summary" + data:post.id'><data:post.body/></div>
<script type='text/javascript'>createSummaryAndThumb("summary<data:post.id/>");</script>
<span class='rmlink' style='float:left'><a expr:href='data:post.url'>READ MORE - <data:post.title/></a></span>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'><data:post.body/></b:if>


7. Save your Template

View your blog and see the result..Happy blogging :)

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