WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Need "read more" option to cap preview text http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-read-more-option-to-cap-preview-text WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Need "read more" option to cap preview text en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:30:50 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 1tess on "Need "read more" option to cap preview text" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-read-more-option-to-cap-preview-text#post-1079981 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:57:41 +0000 1tess 1079981@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Well! You are certainly welcome.

]]> 4realchics on "Need "read more" option to cap preview text" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-read-more-option-to-cap-preview-text#post-1079964 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:40:06 +0000 4realchics 1079964@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ perfect! your brilliant! thank you :)

]]> 1tess on "Need "read more" option to cap preview text" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-read-more-option-to-cap-preview-text#post-1079930 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:51:15 +0000 1tess 1079930@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm not familiar with the Pinboard theme, but most themes on wp.com can use the "more" tag when editing posts:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

No CSS required: just use it where you like in each post…

]]> 4realchics on "Need "read more" option to cap preview text" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-read-more-option-to-cap-preview-text#post-1079908 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:22:43 +0000 4realchics 1079908@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ if you take a look my blog, you'll see that the Salsa Recipe posting has alot of placeholder text ... and this template seems to show ALL the text in the preview, regardless of how long it is. I'd like to cap the preview text at a certain point, and have it be a 'read more' button situation.

Any ideas how to do this with CSS?

the theme is Pinboard by Automatic

http://4realchics.wordpress.com

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