Author: Mark

Editing Tips

Ideally your News page should appear as a series of short posts listed in date order. Depending on how your site is set up these posts may automatically collapse into a shorter article with the text Continue Reading at the end, or the full post is presented.

You should bear in mind that not everyone will want to read everything on your site, and to help them choose what to read it is good practice to introduce a Post with a summary at the start and then insert the Continue Reading attribute in the editor after the introductory paragraph(s). As a very rough guide ensure it collapses down to half a screen.

Here I have inserted an “Insert More Reading Tag” to reduce the length of this post. Continue reading Collapsing Posts

Editing Tips

Most of you have sites with a News page. This is the basic blog model where you can quickly go into your site and create a Post (news item) which goes to the news page, and if supported the news item is also notified through the sidebar on your site. You did not need to tell the post where to go.

The benefit of this method of propagating news is that it is all pretty much automatic and very quick and easy to do. Each new news item goes to the top of the page with the others moving down. Continue reading Manipulating the News Timeline