If you have a Blogger blog then you must have noticed that all your posts are shown in full on your blog homepage itself. Magazine type posts are popular where summaries of your blog posts are shown rather than displaying the entire post itself. This has many apparent advantages, first being that the user can easily scan through the recent post summary on the homepage and choose the one he is interested in reading. This setting also ensures that you have a reasonable amount or number of posts on the homepage at all times without having to scroll too much which in turn looks presentable.
Magazine type posts or summarized posts are not available by default in Blogger. However, a little tweaking around easily achieves the desired results.
Follow the instructions below to setup your Blogger blog to show summarized or Magazine style posts on the homepage.
After the Jump is a feature which lets you create expandable post summaries in your blog posts, so longer posts appear as an intro with a link to Read More.
1. Creating jump breaks in your blog posts can be easily done right from the Post Editor, without the need for any HTML changes. First, decide where in the post you want to create the jump break, and place your cursor in that position:
2. Once your mouse cursor is placed at the jump point, simply click the Insert Jump Break toolbar icon:
3. Clicking the icon will insert a grey bar at the cursor point, illustrating where in the post your break will appear. The bar can be dragged though, so you can always re-position it after insertion.
4. Once you decide on the jump break’s location within the post, you’re ready to publish your post. After publishing, you’ll notice that the Read More link is placed where you set the jump break:
5. Clicking on the Read More link will then display the full text
of the post.
6. If you feel like changing the Read More text to your own custom phrase, you can easily do this from the Layout tab. Click Edit on the Blog Post widget, and then change the Post page link text to whatever you’d like.
