my eyes are blurry from too many hours on the pc so I need help!

Where is the setting in wordpress where I can limit the post count so the article adds the "Read More" link. I have some long articles that id like to shorten so I can add more content to my index. Currently my 3 articles take up too much space hehe

Sun,

Don't blame your eyes. WordPress menu items can be hard to find. In:
yourblog/wp-admin/options-reading.php

(in case it's not obvious, substitute the URL for the blog you are working on in place of yourblog)
You'll see the section I think you are looking for.

In older versions and for control about where the items are broken up you can also insert the <--!More--> tag directly from the post editing window.

Best regards

What I did was create a new function for the "Archive" pages, which only displays a blerb.

add this function to /wp-includes/post-template.php

function the_archive_content($more_link_text = '(more...)', $stripteaser = 0, $more_file = '') {
	global $id;

	$content = get_the_content($more_link_text, $stripteaser, $more_file);
	$content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);
	$content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);

	$length = 500;  // change this to roughly the amount of chars you want to display


	$content = substr($content,0,$length);
	$lastperiod = strripos($content, '.');
	$content = substr($content,0, $lastperiod+1);
	
	$content = $content . "</p><br /><a href=\"". get_permalink() . "\" class=\"more-link\">Read Full Article</a>";
	echo $content;
}

and in the archive template, replace the_content() function call with this to call the new function name:

<div class="entry">
					<?php the_archive_content(__('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;','wp_multiflex')); ?>					
					</div>

This will display 500 chars, minus the amout it takes to get to the last period before it, so that it will display complete sentences.

The only issue with this is if you don't use many periods in your posts (ie, coding posts may not have a single period in them

Am I the only one who was thinking <!--more--> ?

I was too, I think that is what he wants it the more tag.

thanks for the info gents, it was hidden in the CODE editors menu

Originally Posted by handsome rob

Am I the only one who was thinking <!--more--> ?

I think this is the easiest way to do it.