Over the course of time, I’ve been receiving lots of queries, “how I’m displaying, “random, latest, previous posts”, and “excerpts”. I’ve responded those queries many times, so I thought to explain each queries on a seperate blog post to help the users.

In this post, I’m going to explain “More Tag”. As you can see, I’m using excerpts on my index / archive page, and full contents are displayed on single page only. To get the excerpt on my index /archive pages, I’m using a plugin for the past 3+ years, called “Excerpt Reloaded”.

If you don’t want to use seperate plugin for excerpts, you can use the_content function with <!--more--> tag at the point, which you want to prompt readers to click on a link to “read more,” or simply use the_excerpt funtion. But there’s a problem with this function, when you click on the “read more” link, the web page loads and then “jumps” to the section, where the <!--more--> tag is placed in the post. If you do not want “jump”, you can change the default functionality of how this function works by editing the following line in wp-includes/post-template.php:

Open your file and search for the following code:

$output .= ' <a href="'. get_permalink() . "#more-$id\">$more_link_text</a>";

….change to:

$output .= ' &lt;a href="'. get_permalink()<br />."\"&gt;$more_link_text&lt;/a&gt;";

Note: If you follow above steps, you’ll have to do this manual adjustment, every time you upgrade WordPress. On a safe bet, it’s advisable to use Excerpt Reloaded plugin, which offers many customization.