Customize Your WordPress More Tag Link Text

Yesterday I wrote about the WordPress More Tag, how to use it, and why the More Tag is so important for blogging success.

While I shared some of the ways using the WordPress More Tag can improve your blog, I didn’t share one of the coolest features about the More Tag!

One of the more awesome features that comes with the use of the More Tag is the ability to customize the link text that the More tag adds to the end of your blog post excerpt. You can choose to have it say read more, more, read the full article, or anything else you want.

Even better, you have the ability to customize the More Tag link text for each individual blog post – but you have to be in HTML view.

After you have written your content, inserted the More Tag to your post, and switched over to the WordPress HTML editor, look for this code:

Learn How to Customize Your More Tag Link Text

Why Use The Powerful and Often-Forgotten WordPress More Tag

The More Tag is a crucial tool for WordPress blogging success, and yet over and over I see bloggers forget to use it!

What is the More Tag you ask?

The More Tag (only available for posts) is a tag that gets inserted into your blog post content to truncate blog entries so that only the first part of posts is shown on your main blog page and archive pages. When you insert the More Tag, a link will be placed directly after your excerpt, pointing the reader to the full content of the article.

You can find the More Tag button in the first row of the WordPress
visual editor toolbar:

Showing the More Tag in the WordPress Visual Editor Toolbar

Read More About Using the WordPress More Tag