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WebTreats inFocus WordPress Theme: Customising the Display of Post Excerpts

By Steve
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Since switching my blog from Blogger to WordPress I’ve been struggling with a new design. I’m pretty savvy with the coding, but if it’s one thing I’m not it’s a designer. Reluctant though I was to use a pre-built theme template I came across the one I’m using now and couldn’t resist. It’s simple yet elegant and in my opinion far superior to anything I’ve seen both in design and functionality.

Of course a template can’t cater for everyone’s needs and I’ve amended the code a bit to suit mine. One particular change I made was the way in which post excerpts are displayed. The theme uses the the_excerpt() function which either uses an explicit excerpt or the first 55 words of the post if one is not provided. I much prefer using WordPress’s <!––more––> quicktag in my posts in conjunction with the the_content(‘Read More’) function.

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Outbrain and Blogger Read More Links: A Better Solution

By Steve
In Blogging
3Min read
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A a couple of days back I posted a workaround for using read more links and Outbrain’s Rating Widget (ORW) in Blogger….

“As you’ve no doubt noticed I use post snippets or read more links on my blog using Blogger’s jump-links code. I’ve also recently added the Outbrain Rating Widget (ORW). Unfortunately, the two don’t play well together as the ORW is always displayed above the read more link and I’d rather it appeared below, or failing that, not at all.”

The workaround I posted isn’t particularly elegant and it has a couple of downsides. Afterwards, I got to thinking that there must be a better way. Well, there is and it’s so deceptively simple and effective that I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t think of it before. (more…)

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Using Blogger’s Read More Links with Outbrain’s Rating Widget

By Steve
In Blogging
4Min read
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As you’ve no doubt noticed I use post snippets or read more links on my blog using Blogger’s jump-links code. I’ve also recently added the Outbrain Rating Widget (ORW). Unfortunately, the two don’t play well together as the ORW is always displayed above the read more link and I’d rather it appeared below, or failing that, not at all.

While searching for a solution I found this post on the Outbrain support forum regarding this, but sadly no answer. After several unsuccessful attempts at trying to fix this, including positioning the ORW with CSS and some JavaScript, I came up with a workaround which, while not perfect, is appropriate for my situation.

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