Hide Full Posts, Create Post Summaries - Expandable

When I started blogging I found out that full posts are visible on first page. Now that does not looked good on my first page. How am I gonna hide full posts, create posts summaries and add a "Read more..." option in my blog?

Well by default, blogger doesn't provide one. So you have to make it yourself. So lets have a tutorial on it.

1. Go to Layout>Edit HTML and backup your template and expand it.

2. Find </head> and just bellow it add the following codes
<style>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
span.fullpost {display:inline;}
<b:else/>
span.fullpost {display:none;}
</b:if>
</style>
the style tags are necessary cause without these tags it will not work.

3. Find <data:post.body/>
and just bellow it add the following;
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'>Read more...</a>
</b:if>
You can change "Read more..." to your liking.

4. Preview your template for errors and save it.

5. Go to Settings>Formatting and add the following codes
Begin your post
<span class="fullpost">And here is the rest of it.
</span>
in "post template" and save it.

Write the first paragraph in "Begin your post" and the rest in "And here is the rest of it".

Note: There is a limitation to this Even if you want a "full view" for a particular post, the "Read more..." option will be still be there. It's upto you how to use it...

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Also see Adding Custom Favicon to Blogger.

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