{"id":76,"date":"2008-08-28T14:46:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helpermonkey\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2008-08-28T14:46:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:46:35","slug":"using-the-more-button","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helpermonkey\/working-wordpress\/using-the-more-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the &#8220;more&#8221; button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you&#8217;ll end up writing really <em>really<\/em> long blog posts. It happens.\u00a0 I ramble.\u00a0 Train-of-thought blogs aren&#8217;t always aesthetically pleasing.\u00a0 And there&#8217;s nothing wrong with a looong post.<\/p>\n<p>BUT.\u00a0 Long posts make for a very messy blog. And people don&#8217;t want to see a whole bunch of text cluttering up their screens when they check out\u00a0your blog&#8230; SO:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>*clicks on link to read more*<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ooh, how did you do that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why, I&#8217;m glad you asked! It&#8217;s called the Insert More tag, and it&#8217;s uber-useful! To use it, place your cursor in a spot where you want to have the More tag. Click on Insert More tag (see below), and it really is THAT easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sdstudents.wordpress.com\/files\/2008\/06\/more.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26\" src=\"http:\/\/sdstudents.wordpress.com\/files\/2008\/06\/more.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you&#8217;ll end up writing really really long blog posts. It happens.\u00a0 I ramble.\u00a0 Train-of-thought blogs aren&#8217;t always aesthetically pleasing.\u00a0 And there&#8217;s nothing wrong with a looong post. BUT.\u00a0 Long posts make for a very messy blog. And people don&#8217;t want to see a whole bunch of text cluttering up their screens when they check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"parent":46,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helpermonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helpermonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helpermonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helpermonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helpermonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helpermonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helpermonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/77"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helpermonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/helpermonkey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}