Add "READ MORE" Button

In my previous blogger template I had no 'read more' button. And when I changed my blogger template I realized most of the templates have not read more button. Its difficult to see without read more button. The page goes bigger and take too long time to load.

So today we learn how to add read more button. (This tutorial for those who have no read more button in their blogger template)

Please first of all save your template.
Go to blogger> template>Backup/Restore>Download full Template  and then save it.

now we add read more button step by step:

Step 1: Login to your blogger. Then go to Template. Now press 'Edit HTML'. 

Step 2: Find the below code by pressing 'Ctrl+F'

</head>   

Step 3: Then add the below code after </head> tag code

<!-- Auto read more script Start -->
<script type='text/javascript'>
var thumbnail_mode = "yes"; //yes -with thumbnail, no -no thumbnail
summary_noimg = 430; //summary length when no image
summary_img = 340; //summary length when with image
img_thumb_height = 200;
img_thumb_width = 200;
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
function removeHtmlTag(strx,chop){ 
 if(strx.indexOf("<")!=-1)
 {
  var s = strx.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); 
   } 
  } 
  strx =  s.join(""); 
 }
 chop = (chop < strx.length-1) ? chop : strx.length-2; 
 while(strx.charAt(chop-1)!=' ' && strx.indexOf(' ',chop)!=-1) chop++; 
 strx = strx.substring(0,chop-1); 
 return strx+'...'; 
}

function createSummaryAndThumb(pID){
 var div = document.getElementById(pID);
 var imgtag = "";
 var img = div.getElementsByTagName("img");
 var summ = summary_noimg;
        if(thumbnail_mode == "yes") {
 if(img.length>=1) { 
  imgtag = '<span style="float:left; padding:0px 10px 5px 0px;"><img src="'+img[0].src+'" width="'+img_thumb_width+'px" height="'+img_thumb_height+'px"/></span>';
  summ = summary_img;
 }
 }
 var summary = imgtag + '<div>' + removeHtmlTag(div.innerHTML,summ) + '</div>';
 div.innerHTML = summary;
}
//]]>
</script>
<!-- Auto read more script End -->

<data:post.body/>

<!-- Auto read more Start -->
<!-- http://potonngo.blogspot.com -->
<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>
<a class='more' expr:href='data:post.url'>Read more ...</a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
<!-- Auto read more End -->
  

Step 4: After adding the code,find this line by pressing 'Ctrl+F' <data:post.body/> 

And now replace the line with Below code

<!-- Auto read more Start -->
<!-- http://potonngo.blogspot.com -->
<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>
<a class='more' expr:href='data:post.url'>Read more ...</a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
<!-- Auto read more End -->
  

Now Save your template. Before save it, check Your template by pressing Preview.