Automatic Read More Hack in Blogger With Thumbnail

When we start our blog and post 2-3 posts and when we see our blog in home page then by default blogger shows the full posts in the home page by we all want to know show that blogger should show half content in the home page and rest is show in the whole post. So, it’s better to give a summary of your posts on your blog’s homepage and then add a ‘read more’ link below that post summary. In this Blogger Tutorial i have a script that automatically converts your posts into read more summary in your blog homepage.

Demo of Read More hack

Installation of Read More Hack

• Login to Blogger > Dashborad
• Click on Drop Down Menu and select Template
• Backup your Template before making any changes to your blog
• Now Click on Edit HTML > Proceed > Expand Widget Templates
• Press Ctrl + F and search the code shown below.

</head>

• Paste below code before </head>

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
function removeHtmlTag(a,b){if(a.indexOf("<")!=-1){var s=a.split("<");for(var i=0;i<s.length;i++){if(s[i].indexOf(">")!=-1){s[i]=s[i].substring(s[i].indexOf(">")+1,s[i].length)}}a=s.join("")}b=(b<a.length-1)?b:a.length-2;while(a.charAt(b-1)!=' '&&a.indexOf(' ',b)!=-1)b++;a=a.substring(0,b-1);return a+'...'}function createSummaryAndThumb(a){var b=document.getElementById(a);var c="";var d=b.getElementsByTagName("img");var e=summary_noimg;if(d.length>=1){c='<span style="float:left; padding:0px 10px 5px 0px;"><img src="'+d[0].src+'" width="'+img_thumb_width+'px" height="'+img_thumb_height+'px"/></span>';e=summary_img}var f=c+'<div>'+removeHtmlTag(b.innerHTML,e)+'</div>';b.innerHTML=f}
//]]>
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
summary_noimg = 550;
summary_img = 450;
img_thumb_height = 150;
img_thumb_width = 200;
</script>

• Now find below code

<data:post.body/>

• Replace it with  below code

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
 <data:post.body/>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'>
<data:post.body/>
<b:else/>
<div expr:id='&quot;summary&quot; + data:post.id'>
<data:post.body/>
</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>createSummaryAndThumb(&quot;summary<data:post.id/>&quot;);</script>
<div style='clear: both;'/>
<span class='rmlink' style='font-weight:bold;padding:6px;float:right;text-align:right;'><a expr:href='data:post.url' >Read more</a></span>
</b:if>
</b:if>

• Now Save your template.

 Make Changes....! (Optional)

summary_ noimg= 550; >> Length of the summary if the post does not have a thumbnail.
summary_img = 450; >> Length of the summery if the post have a thumbnail
null_thumb_height = 150; >> Height in pixels of the thumbnail.
null_thumb_width = 200; >> Width in pixels of the thumbnail.

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